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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (1) What causes =20, =B7, =FA etc. to appear at the end of lines, start of
> lines, or after an indent at the start of a line?...
I see this same sort of jizz all of the time in mail sent to me from Windoze
machines.
I asked someone knowlegable about such systems about this once.
Apparently, it is just one small tactic in the larger plot of Microsoft to
take over the world, slowly, in phases, by being just slightly incompatible
with every non-Microsoft protocol and/or piece of software in existance.
Well, that's what I was told anyway. I'm just passing it along.
:-)
But seriously, what I was told is that this extra gunk is in fact some sort
of bizzare Microsoft goo, and that if you are _viewing_ messages that have
this extra goo stuck onto them from a Windoze machine, you won't even see
this ugly extra gunk.
Apparently, there is some sort of an obscure configuration setting in MS
mail clients that has to be set explicitly to ``no extra jizz please'',
and if you get a message that contains this gunk, it means that the dufus
who sent it to you just dosn't know about this extra configuration setting,
or that he should be turning off the extra goo when communicating with all
normal people who have normal (non-MS-goo-enhanced) mail clients.
Why Microsoft would ship mail clients with the default setting set to
``yes, generate extra goo that only doesn't look stupid to other MS
mail clients'' is a question which probably doesn't require much deep
pondering.
(And then, of course, Netscape got into this incompatability game too with
a default setting in THEIR mail clients of ``yes, generate 500KB of extra
HTML for each 1KB of ordinary outgoing text in each mail message.'' Isn't
progress wonderful?)
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