Stuart Ballard wrote:
>
> "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote:
> >
> > Netscape Communicator has an option to turn this on or off. So Netscape
> > can inflict this on readers at the other end. Its easily found in
> > Preferences. I've left it off because of the experience I've had with
> > it. I'm not sadistic like that.
>
> Have you tried Netscape's quoted-printable implementation? Assuming that
> Netscape's will suck based on the fact that Microsoft's does seems a
> slightly unjustifiable leap. You could try sending a mail to yourself
> using qp-encoding (nitpick: it's quoted-printable, not printed-quotable)
> and see how it renders.
>
> > Printed Quotable Mime Encoding as MicroSoft sends it is shown as an
> > Attachemnt. In order to see as such you have to have show attchments
> > inline turned on. If its not you see the typical attachment display you
> > would when you send a picture or such item.
> >
> > As such it can not be changed as its an attachment, and is dependent
> > upon how it was setup and sent from originating site.
>
> The quoted-printable MIME encoding has been an internet standard (RFC)
> for years. If there are still mail clients out there that handle it as
> badly as you describe, perhaps such users should be considering a new
> mail client. (It isn't, or shouldn't be, *actually* sent as an
> attachment - if the mail client displays it as one, the bug is in the
> client). After all, if someone complained that he couldn't read your
> (standards-compliant and cross-browser) website with MSIE2.0 or NCSA
> Mosaic, would you fix the page (possibly breaking it for other users in
> the process) or tell them to upgrade their browser?
>
> Note: I'm not suggesting that qp should be turned on by default, given
> the climate as it is now. But I would suggest that, instead of (or as
> well as) flaming people for sending qp, people should be flaming their
> mail-client creators for not rendering a standard email correctly.
>
> Stuart.
Okay I am sending this reply in quoted printable. To see what happens.
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