>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Heydekamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> I'm aware of all of these problems but that still doesn't
Michael> explain ...
Michael> a) why Mailman recodes the UTF-8 body to base64 rather
Michael> than qp (which would be the recommended and much better
Michael> option for text/plain).
Probably because the people who wrote the code were Arabic or Korean
speakers, where pretty much everything but citation prefixes and line
endings is 8-bit. QP is no more recommended than BASE64. QP is
preferred if-and-only-if the body would be basically readable in QP,
which of course depends on the content.
So choosing intelligently would involve a count of the entire part to
be encoded. Yuck.
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