Corrupt list archives?

John Murphy spam-trap at freeode.co.uk
Fri Jul 9 11:53:03 PDT 2004


Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:

>On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:58:29PM +0100, John Murphy wrote:
>> Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:
>>
>> >The archive shows your post exactly as it was sent.
>> 
>> I'm amazed.  "=" shows as "=3D" and "=3D" as "=3D3D" for me!
>> Hyphen hyphen space (sig separator) as "--=20".
>
>Yes, exactly.  That *is* how your mails are sent.
>If you look at the headers of your mails they contain the line
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>which means that some letters are encoded exactly as you describe.
>Most mail-readers understand this format and automatically decodes
>those letters.

Ah, it becomes clearer now thank you.

I've changed from Quoted printable to 7bit/8bit.  If it looks better
all I'll need to do then is get everyone else to change :)

-- 
John.
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