On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > From: Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> > > > > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > > >> > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > >> > > >> >>> [snip] > >> > >> Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's > > reply header. I cannot have my own custom reply header, nor can I opt not to > > have one at all. At least, not that I've been able to find in the Mail > > Settings. I can, however, edit or erase it from any reply as I did above, but > > sometimes I forget. > >> > > > > Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which > > make them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. > > > Sorry 'bout that, but there's nothing much I can do about it from my end: It's Yahoo Mail that's the problem. > > I have my mail set to "Plain Text" but since this is Web browser-based e-mail I'm sure it's not 100% pure ASCII. I don't even think switching to a "real" e-mail account would solve the problem. With almost everything these days graphic and web-based, smartphone and tablet, the days of pure ASCII e-mail are gone for the most part. Actually, you're fine. Your message is sent "Quoted-Printable". > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is a way to encode 8-bit data (in your case ISO-8859-1) into a 7-bit (ASCII) form. Where you have characters that aren't "printable ASCII" they're encoded as "=" followed by the hex code of the character (so =0D=0A is a new line). It's then up to the MUA to decode those characters and (if necessary) transcode the characters from ISO-8859-1 to the user's character set (in my case UTF-8).
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