Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> writes: > Sure, Dave is being bloody-minded, but that's the only way we'll see > people get off their fat, lazy asses and fix their broken systems. > In fact, hopefully he's still in a dark mood, and he may take up the > suggestion to bounce mails of the following type: > - MIME encoded > - HTML encoded > - quoted printables (those stupid "=20" things are particuarly hard to > read). MIME is no encoding, but a way to declare mail contents and encode binary data. You need not use it on mail you send. HTML is no encoding. (No doubt it's usually sent by people without A Clue[tm] or being ruthless.) quoted-printable is an encoding, and it's probably around for ten years now. I can send base64 if you like that better, but then, even more people will cry, while others don't even notice. Gnus 5.8 + Emacs, mutt, Netscape Communicator are three packages which deal with MIME-"enhanced" mail. Plus, people which use any characters beyond ASCII have no real choice but to use MIME; if they have MTAs in between that don't talk ESMTP/8BITMIME, then quoted-printable is what happens. Use emil, metamail or such if you want to keep your mailer. -- Matthias Andree - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
