[geeks] Anti-html Letter

Will Mc Donald wmcdonald at orctel.co.uk
Thu Feb 21 03:02:57 CST 2002


From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods at weird.com>

> [ 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

Yeah, I noticed that when I received it back from the list. Is the list
de-munging quoted-printable?

Will.



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