In the last episode (Jul 09), John Murphy said: > Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In the last episode (Jul 09), John Murphy said: > >> While browsing the freebsd-questions archives at freebsd.org and > >> via google, I noticed that corruption occurs, under some > >> circumstances, where "=" becomes "=3D" (3D is ascii for =) and > >> some spaces are shown as "=20". > > > >Sounds like quoted-printable MIME encoding. > > > >> The first instances of the problem (found via google groups) > >> ~occurred 1994! The first archived in this list ~Feb. 2000. > >> > >> The same corruption can be seen in the mailing.freebsd.questions > >> newsgroup so it's not an http/html problem. > > > >Do you have a message-id of a message showing this? > > This URL: http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?dtfte05p8b3djcvtbp9o24fqpopbiakosj > shows the mess made of my original post.
I think that's just because the mid.cgi script doesn't know how to process quoted-printable text, so it just passes it though. The pipermail archive of your message at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-July/052070.html looks correct, as does the gmane copy at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.questions/99889 -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"