[geeks] Anti-html Letter

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Wed Feb 20 20:18:17 CST 2002


[ On Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 23:25:31 (-0000), Will Mc Donald wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Anti-html Letter
>
> Now, on another list we've just had a discussion in which quoted printable was
> considered a Good Thing. Opinions? It makes text more readable and prevents
> URL wrapping which is nice but is it a commonly acceptable format?

quoted-printable encoding is vastly more readable than BASE64....   ;-)

It can still get pretty ugly though -- especially if there are some
word-wrap problems associated....

> This is quoted-printable and I'm more than happy to switch back. :)

Not when I received it:


	MIME-Version: 1.0
	Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
	Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
 
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