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Re: proper mail headers



 >> >> Please disable "quoted-printable" encoding and use 8-bit.
 >> >> Your reply was un-readable...
 >> >> 
 >> >>  >>What=20happened=20to=20Thomas=20Much's=20"TOS-Book"?
 >> >
 >> >X-Mailer: ASH Emailer 1.0
 >>            ^^^^^^^^^^^
 >>
 >>This explains it!
 >>
 >>From: q-funk@megacom.net (Martin-Eric Racine)
 >>X-Mailer: NEWSie Version 0.88 (Atari)
 >           ^^^^^^
 >
 >No, *this* explains it.  

Quoted-printable is a kludge for old 7-bit systems that don't
understand anything above 127, to allow them to still display
accented stuff if needed.  It's outdated and innapropriate.

 >Try using a modern mail client (pine? elm? mutt!).  
 
Erm... you call CLI applications "modern" ?!!!

ROTFL!!!!!!


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