Re: Apple IIe TCP-IP w/ LANceGS Card

[NoEmail@NoEmail.NoNet (copper wire)]

Ah, so that's the reason that Bill Garber's posts have that garbage "=20"
included at the end of every single line of his posts.

In any event, it's extremely annoying to read posts with that extra
garbage embedded in the text.

I'm sure there's plenty of good freeware and shareware newsreaders
available for the Windows platform that would be better to use than MS's
Outlook Express, but for those who insist on using OE, perhaps it would be
courteous and wise to turn off the quoted-printable feature in your
preferences settings (or whereever it's found).  Just a suggestion, but
I'm sure most people would agree with this suggestion.

USENET postings (and likewise EMAIL) should be plain text and free of all
junk characters and HTML in my opinion.

*rant mode off*



In article <jalapeno1-80A75C.10401926122003@news02.east.earthlink.net>,
Jalapeno <jalapeno1@mac.com> wrote:
> Look at the headers for that article and notice:
> 
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>    charset="Windows-1252"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
> 
> 
> OE is sending Mime 1.0 plain text but with quoted-printable encoding. 
> Yet another example of how Microsoft shows no respect for something 
> which it doesn't control. A text forum should be sent plain text and OE 
> should do that by default.
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cdosys/h
> tml/_cdosys_content-transfer-encoding_quoted-printable.asp
> 
> Notice in that Microsoft written article the term "mostly" being used. 
> This is misguided assumption on their part to insert this into a product 
> that posts articles into a newsgroup. It shows a lack of respect towards 
> people who use plain text news readers. btw, =20 is just a space in 
> ascii and I assume it is meant to provide a soft break.