Re: Roads must roll was Re: Most Ridiculous SF Predictions


"Daniel Silevitch" <dmsilev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"A body which is entirely ASCII may also be encoded in Quoted-Printable
to
ensure the integrity of the data should the message pass through a
character-translating, and/or line-wrapping gateway."

Right.

That ensures that the message arrives at the destination (ie your
newsreader) unmunged.


As opposed to a newsreader that intentionally sends garbled messages?




Then, the destination software is supposed to
decode it and treat the decoded result as ASCII.


No, it specifically isn't.




Which, for a
newsreader, includes putting in the proper quoting characters.


Unless it was sent in quoted-printible, which is intended to prevent exactly
that kind of munging.



Or is it your position that proper behavior for a newsreading agent is
to disallow _any_ changes to the Sacred Quoted-Printable Text,
including, one assumes, your own replies?


When dealing with quoted-printible? Yes.




Shorter version: Your newsreader is not a "character-translating and/or
line-wrapping gateway".


Actually it is. You don't imagine Cox is doing my line wrapping, do you?


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