Ed Greshko wrote: <snip> > Yes, bad assumptions are made by the gateway administrator. He has > assumed that all messages will contain some Chinese and that receiving > MTA's will "break" the messages sent as 8bit. very bad. but i am not talking about such cases. > Right....but wasn't it about CTE and not plain v.s. html? no. > Well, no. Just because an email contains some Chinese characters and again, you are talking about emails with chinese. i have seen very few, so few, that i can not even say that there has been any. :) but i am aware that there have been several from asian countries, that have been in english, in text/plain, and they apologize for their lacking in use of english. [hell, i wish i new some of their languages as well as they do english.] i am talking about html's that are sent to tsl's, majority of which are emails sent to this list, kde = 2nd, thunderbird = 3rd, firefox = 4th, scientific = a small 5th. > But, my point is still...senders to this list can be faulted for sending > text/html v.s. text/plain....but they can't always be "faulted" for > their CTE being quoted-printable or base64. to this, i agree. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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