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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.
Well, your text is now perfectly clean and readable - but this mailreader does render qp. (The alpha version will be able to render HTML too - but not to compose it. What I'm using, BTW, is the beta.)
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.
What I received wasn't the usual behaviour of qp.
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.
Au contraire, it was a US introduction, and not protocol-compliant. I can see that it is handy, and maybe *SHOULD* be added to the protocols, but unilaterally dumping it on other users of the net was not the way to go about it.
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.
Well, I didn't think we were bickering - debating, maybe. Anyway, it keeps the old grey matter active innit...
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 :)
Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, there are only rules on Usenet and in Mail, not regulations.
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 :)
Quite. With the caveat of course that if the sender wishes me to read what he/she has written, I need to be able to...
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...
I noticed one line which had acquired a chevron somehow - maybe injudicious flourishes on the Del key.
Anyway, toodle-oo :)
And thanks for all the fish?
Pip-pip, old top.