Re: Apple IIe TCP-IP w/ LANceGS Card

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In article <BunHb.24394$J77.18731@fed1read07>, salfter@salfter.dyndns.org
(Scott Alfter) wrote:
> You see it because your newsreader doesn't handle the quoted-printable
> content transfer encoding.  Even trn handles quoted-printable, and it's a
> relatively old newsreader.  (trn 4.0 was released sometime in 1995, and the
> most recent patch for that version is from April 2001.) Quoted-printable was
> defined in RFC 1521 (MIME Part I), issued in September 1993.  A newsreader
> that still doesn't handle it more than ten years later is beyond obsolete.


MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
Newsreading software for accessing USENET should have no reason to be
sending out MIME encoded, quoted-printable information in the ASCII text
body message, just like it should have no reason to be HTMLizing posts to
USENET.
As it so happens, my freeware newsreading software is copyright 1994-1998,
by Northwestern University, so although it's a few years old, it is far
from being obsolete, IMHO. In any event, it's default settings (as well as
advanced settings) plays by the NNTP posting rules, unlike certain
newsreading apps that come from Microsoft.





> (That said, I suspect that changing the default character encoding in
> Lookout Express from Windows-1252 (a non-standard character encoding) to
> either us-ascii or iso8859-1 might make it go away.  I haven't used it in
> years, though, and don't have it set up on any of my machines, or I'd test
> it myself and see if it made a difference.)

And there in is the key acronym.  ASCII.