Well, does that excuse M$'s introduction and (mis)use of HTML and embedded Word in e-mails and news?
Nope, it's an entirely unrelated topic.
On a more relevant note, mailing lists have played host to PGP/mime for years, many googlable and readable examples of which use Content-Transfer-Encoding:quoted-printable.
It's really not that zany an idea, you know.
It's a bit harsh to see that behaviour as "broken", I think.
From the angle of what my mailreader (which does in fact read qp if properly presented)
Actually, I would have to disagree, if what you quoted back to me is representative of its usual behaviour.
I'd be more inclined to call it intentional and standards-compliant than=20 broken. No, it is completely standards non-compliant.
No, it is standards-compliant, as there is demonstrably a standard with which it deliberately complied, and a sensible reason for using it at the time.
Well, it would mean that everyone, techie or beginner, endowed of loads of round tuits or tuit-challenged would be able to read what appears in e-mails (and news).
I feel I've kind of started bickering with you here when your point is reasonable, and that's not what anyone wants to achieve.
On a personal level, I tend towards plaintext being the Right Thing, and of *course* I am happy to try and ensure everything's spick & span and done the Right Way :)
However, to paraphrase my personal hero the great Douglas Adams, we will then have plaintext, anything your mail client still can't cope with is therefore your own problem :)
it *IS* seriously borked.
On a loosely related note, you have a mild quirk to quoting behaviour which seems to place things in the wrong level of quotation (including your actual message text) :) I keep almost missing your text because it's a quote...
Anyway, toodle-oo :)
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Ten
PS: Quoted-Printable is not ebil! *run*