Miata Mailing List: November 1995, Message #115
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   From: Keith Tanner 
Subject: Re: Daily digest format screwed up
   Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 10:40:38 -0500

Andy Poling looked into the strange characters that some people are finding
in their daily digests.  Here is his explanation:

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I found where it is happening - at our mail gateway (PMDF on VMS).  The
reason is that people are putting non-printable characters in their messages
to the list.  PMDF sees this and uses QUOTED-PRINTABLE encoding to ensure
that the message will get delivered intact. 

While I think that the PMDF folks are a little too enamoured with MIME, I
can't argue with their rationale that most mail transport systems are still
7-bit and that 8-bit messages need to be encoded. 

My best recommendation to the doomed reader is to get a newer MIME-capable
MUA...

-Andy
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I'm not sure how many of you are having this problem.  One solution would be
if the Miata masses could stop using non-printable characters.  Sorry for
the inconvenience, folks.

Keith Tanner
List Administrator