[Info-vax] OpenVMS Modernization Development Tools on YouTube (eCube)

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <lvedik$lho$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at softjar.se> writes: 

> >> But some others are apparently seeing a "=3D", which is suppose to get
> >> converted to "=". I don't know it it's Kerry's MIME headers or an
> >> issue with some people's email clients/news readers.
> >
> > This is the first time that Kerry's mail has defeated my news reader;
> > it normally copes with MIME encoding.
> >
> > Unusually I also had to weed out ~960 lines from the end of the message
> > for my reply to Kerry.
> 
> Seems some people have bad news readers, as the post by Kerry do have 
> the correct headers for the content.

OK, but the question is whether one should post encoded text to a
plain-text newsgroup.  Why not post binaries, or images, or whatever?  
With the proper MIME headers, one could in principle decode them.

One MIGHT be able to make a case for encoding something which goes 
beyond 7-bit printable ASCII, but why one would encode plain text is 
beyond me.