[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS - A Progress Report

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
> In article
> <f5b6cb43-4328-4b26-b5d8-fd662df8cbde at m11g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
> BillPedersen <pedersen at ccsscorp.com> writes: 
> 
>> On Oct 19, 3:08=A0am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
>> remove CLOTHES to reply) wrote:
> 
> Bill's full reply is below.
> 
> Let me kindly suggest, not just with respect to VMS freeware activities, 
> the following:
> 
>    o  Don't quote too much text
> 
>    o  Don't post quoted-printable stuff to a text-based newsgroup like 
>       comp.os.vms
> 
> Discussion is good, but it needs to be easy so that no time is wasted.  
> The points above make it easier and, of course, apply to all newsgroup 
> posts.  Also, though you didn't do so:
> 
>    o  Don't top-post
> 
> is also an essential rule.
> 
> With regard to the quoted-printable stuff: it might be that you always 
> see the text "correctly" because of some software conversion.  But other 
> folks might not.
> 
> Note that there is also no need to encode anything I wrote, since I used
> only 7-bit printable US-ASCII.  Why encode a space as "=A0", for
> example? 
> 

The second of two consecutive space characters will be encoded as "=A0".
I have no idea why or even which mailers exhibit this behavior.  For 
example I just typed two consecutive spaces following a period because 
that's the way I learned to type English text.  For some mail programs 
this will be a problem, for others, not!