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From: Pavel.Janik@inet.cz (Pavel Janik ml.)
Subject: Re: Content-Transfer-Encoding
Date: 22 Apr 2000 10:43:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3og727cgg.fsf@SnowWhite.inet.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "22 Apr 2000 02:16:28 +0200"

   From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
   Date: 22 Apr 2000 02:16:28 +0200

Hi,

   > > hmm, can you please add (iso-8859-2 . 8bit)?
   > 
   > Is that the preferred encoding, though?  Why not qp?

there are at least two good reasons:

        - there are too many people with not-MIME compliant browsers and they
          can not read =3D like stuff at all. 8bit is readable for
          them. Remember that there are crazy people who do not use Gnus and
          even Emacs...
        - if you send something with qp, the first well configured server does
          recode the stuff to 8bit :-) so it is better to directly send with
          8bit and you will have easily grep'able mail archive. I do not think
          that Gnus or anything in Emacs is good for grepping through my 100MB+
          mail archive...

The last reason can be that =3D is three bytes long, but = is only one byte. I
think you can find more resons for this...
-- 
Pavel Janík ml.
Pavel.Janik@inet.cz



  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-22  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-13 10:23 Content-Transfer-Encoding Shigeki Uno
2000-01-13 11:14 ` Content-Transfer-Encoding Katsumi Yamaoka
2000-01-13 17:02   ` Content-Transfer-Encoding Shigeki Uno
2000-01-13 23:52     ` Content-Transfer-Encoding Katsumi Yamaoka
2000-01-14 18:18       ` Content-Transfer-Encoding Shigeki Uno
2000-04-21 13:22       ` Content-Transfer-Encoding Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-04-21 19:24         ` Content-Transfer-Encoding Pavel Janik ml.
2000-04-22  0:16           ` Content-Transfer-Encoding Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-04-22  8:43             ` Pavel Janik ml. [this message]
2000-04-22 12:28               ` Content-Transfer-Encoding Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-01-09 10:37 content-transfer-encoding vvv

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