Scripsit illa aut ille Disaster <disaster@disfanfic.net>:
> > > > I see the ">" is Disaster's messages all the time.
> > > >
> > > > For the record, I'm also using OE.
> > >
> > > The only time that I ever miss the ">" in my replies is when I reply to
> > > html documents.
> >
> > Simple: HTML documents are *also* encoded using quoted-printable. Just
> > look at the source, if you see things like "=3D", it's quoted-printable.
> > It is also possible (even encouraged by the RFCs) to encode plaintext
> > documents using quoted-printable if they contain 8bit characters.
> 
> So what that tells me is that you are supporting a movement to make
> plaintext as evil as HTML?

No. HTML is not evil because of quoted printable.

The problem is: RFCs recommend to always encode 8bit characters in some
way since not every server can transport them. Possible encodings are
quoted-printable and base64. The latter is not good because it is not
human-readable, so if the character set is an overset of us-ascii,
quoted-printable is the best.

So it's - according to many documents - better to post in
quoted-printable than in 8bit. But as long as there are no characters
that need the encoding, 7bit is the best choice - currently my header
states 8bit, but the 8th bit is not used (which is normal in English).

BTW: I do not know why OE sends HTML messages in quoted printable. There
is no reason to do this - HTML itself contains an encoding for 8bit
characters, so where's the point to encode HTML with quoted-printable?
Just because '=3D' has two characters more than '='?


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