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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-09-18 16:37, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> 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.

I agree that it would be nicer if people just stuck to ASCII, but 
sometimes it don't happen, and sometimes it might even be legit.

Just accept that in those cases, things will look weird and not work if 
you have a news reader that can't deal with it.
I think it don't make sense to blame the poster in those cases.

	Johnny