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Re: so much for your ascii only emails and 80 char lines :)



    Hi.

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 03:36:12PM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 08:00:10PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> > Le decadi 30 messidor, an CCXXV, martin@martinbrandenburg.com a
> > ecrit:
> > > I don't read messages from you or in fact anyone at your domain,
> > > except
> > > this one, because they're written in base64.
> >
> > If you see the base64, then your mail software is broken or
> > hopelessly outdated. Technically, this mail was conform to the
> > standards: even though the base64 encoding was not necessary, it
> > was perfectly legal.
> >
> > That does not mean you should read Fungi4All's mails, though. But do
> > not blame the form, blame the substance.
>
> Well, the OP complaining about HTML and using himself an equally
> stupid encoding had it coming and deserves any critique just for being
> hypocritical.

The encoding in OP's e-mail works just fine for me.
Sending pure HTML e-mail on the other hand in explicitly forbidden by
[1].


> And btw. posting to a high volume mailinglist should always be ASCII
> only and interwoven.

Are you aware that your e-mail contains this wonderful header:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1


[1] https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/

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