[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[George Cook]

In article <00AA1843.FEFAF27F at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> In article <4c5af098$0$32458$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>>Michael Kraemer wrote:
>>
>>> Why?
>>> It's an english NG and AFAIK English can be encoded completely
>>> in 7 bit ASCII.
>>
>>
>>While the rest of the world may say 20°, in the USA, despite it being
>>english, they will say 68°.  Still needs a charactere whose value is
>>higher than 127.
>>
>>Same for the euro currency symbol. You still need to include it in your
>>text even if you speak english.
> 
> And JF's message, despite the 8bit degree is not quoted-pukeable!
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> Read's like a charm here on the OS you all so loathe and condemn.

I'm using Anunews (about as ancient as it gets) on a VAX.  Both
JF's message and the Thunderbird test look just fine.  I agree
with VAXman that the QP stuff is the main problem.  I don't recall
ever seeing a post on COV where QP would have added anything of
value.


George Cook
WVNET