On Jan 6, 18:33, Barry A. Watzman wrote:
> Subject: Message formats
>
> [ plain text
> Encoded with "quoted-printable" ] :
I am NOT sending in HTML format, but it is MIME encoded. Sorry, but I use
my E-Mail client (Windows messaging) for more than just this discussion
group, and I need the ability to send and receive formatted text for some
of them, including my employer. I'm not going to change formats on a
message-by-message basis just to eliminate the equals signs at the ends of
the lines.
No, it's not just MIME-encoded. We're not complaining about equals signs
at the ends of lines (which, incidentally, arise because Microsoft don't
understand MIME). Apart from this message, all the ones I've seen from you
have been encoded as "multipart/alternative". The few I've bothered to
read (because it IS a bother) have contained a copy in some other format as
well as the plain text.
And as you can see from the way my mailer has quoted your message, the
lines aren't split except at paragraph breaks. You need to get a mailer
that works :-)
"Windows messaging"? Do you mean Microsoft Mail? Or something like
Outlook? I can assure you that it is possible to configure Microsoft
mailers to send formatted HTML (which IMHO should not be allowed at all) or
RTF in such a way that normal mailers simply see a plain text plus an
attachment.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Wed Jan 06 1999 - 18:10:42 GMT