> -----Original Message-----
> 
> >Unfortunately, it's an amateur radio BBS written in the 80s that only
> understands plain text.
> > It's still extremely useful and widely used, especially in emergency
> comms
> 
> So worthwhile investing some cash and getting it updated so that it can
> cope with the modern world?  [clipped]

While I appreciate everyone's attempt to warn me that "there be dragons", the 
facts are that the client is what it is, it serves hundreds of people (in my 
location alone), and the problem needs solving.  

And, while I may be a newbie to MIME and MIMEDefang (and Perl, for that 
matter), I'm definitely NOT a newbie in most other respects.  I've been doing 
network engineering since the days of the NSFnet and I'm pretty certain I 
understand this particular application need better than anyone else here.

So, going forward, I'm hopeful I can get advice and help on MIME and MIMEDefang 
here.  And warnings about dangers of this or that detail or approach are, of 
course, very helpful.  But suggesting that the client be changed doesn't really 
answer the questions that I'm asking.

Paul, Dianne: regarding readability of quoted-printable:  again, I'm a newbie 
to MIMEDefang, not the world.  So I understand and appreciate the warning but I 
still have to solve the problem.  The incoming messages were originated as 
plain ASCII text.  So, the quoted-printable results I'm seeing aren't hard to 
read at all.  But if worse comes to worse, I may end up squashing it to plain 
ASCII text.  We'll see.

Michael



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