Re: OT: quoted-printable (was Help on strategy for debian install needed)

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson) writes:

> x.y.f@home.com wrote:
> >First off please set your mail client to wrap at 72 characters when
> >sending to this list.
> 
> Looking at his original mail, it was indeed wrapped, although it was in
> quoted-printable. Perhaps your mail client displays that in a misleading
> way.

Actually, the raw mail was wrapped, so that it would be sure to pass
through any mail manglers.  However, the QP gunk at the end of the
messages means that when decoded from QP, the message gets unwrapped.
x.y.f's mailer did the right thing, since the original mail specified
really long lines.


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