RE: Quoted Printable in Messages (Subject Changed)

Actually, I think the problem here is I sent a message out using Mac MAIL-
which definitely went out in HTML format with all the MIME headers and so
forth. The problems appear to be from where that message gets quoted. It
was, by the way, formatted to standards compliance, at least on the e-mail
list. I can't find the original "problem" message on a news server. Google
of course, cleaned it up just fine.

Almost any Usenet reader around should have been able to take the message
and correctly display the text part of it. Certainly any of the Mozilla
based readers (it looks like you are using Mozilla 4.77 under Windows XP,
reporting as NT 5) should have.

I tried reading this thread with a copy of tin last night under Linux and it
came up perfectly legible from the Suddenlink news servers. Of course, it
came in fine with outlook express too.

Here's a header; I would highlight the relevant part if I could send
formatting information along. :)
The important part is the Content-Transfer-Encoding: header line. Certain
gateway software *used* to have trouble with quoted printable stuff - maybe
five years ago. But it should all be up to date now. Quoted printable, isn't
a "Microsoft" thing by the way; it allows other character sets to be
displayed and correctly transmitted across Usenet and E-mail gateways. This
list does have some participants who speak something else besides English as
their primary language.

References below.

-Paul

From: "Main, Kerry" <Kerry.Main@xxxxxx>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Is VMS losing the Financial Sector, also?
Message-ID:
<FA60F2C4B72A584DBFC6091F6A2B86840250A3C9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 12:34:45 -0400
Organization: Info-VAX<==>comp.os.vms Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List
Lines: 93
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Mime-Version: 1.0
Path:
news.suddenlink.net!dartmaster!s02-b21.iad01!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!news
hosting.com!204.127.204.221.MISMATCH!wns11feed!worldnet.att.net!204.71.34.3!
newsfeed.cwix.com!mvb.saic.com!info-vax
Xref: news.suddenlink.net comp.os.vms:206174

---
Quoted-printable encoding is used where data is mostly US-ASCII text. It
allows for 8-bit characters to be represented as their hexadecimal values.
For instance, a new line can be forced by using the following string:
"=0D=0A". Line lengths are limited to 76 characters. Using an equal sign as
the last character on the line as a "soft" line break accommodates longer
lines. The 76-character limit does not include the CRLF sequence or the
equal sign.

Any character, except the CRLF sequence, can be represented by an equal sign
followed by a two-digit hexadecimal representation. This is especially
useful in getting mostly text messages to pass reliably through gateways
such as EBCDIC where such characters as "{" and "}" have special meaning.



-Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: David J Dachtera [mailto:djesys.no@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 10:59 PM
To: Info-VAX@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Is VMS losing the Financial Sector, also?

"P. Sture" wrote:
[snip]
There's a pretty comprehensive article entitled "Configuring Mail
Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text". It covers all manner of clients:

http://www.expita.com/nomime.html

Is it new enough to include Safari?

Seems we have some Safari users here. The results so far have been at
least as
unpredictable as LookOut! + Exchange.

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