At 21:05 -0700 04 Sep 2002, David Ellement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I noticed this in the headers to your message as received on my end:
> 
>     X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable
>       by inet34.rd.bbc.co.uk

> So it seems your machine won't allow 8bit out,

It's more likely that the machine it's sending to doesn't announce that
8bit messages are acceptable, so that machine encodes it as 7 bit.

>     X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit
>       by hpsdlfsa.sdd.hp.com

> while mine won't allow qp in.

Here it's probably not so much that it doesn't allow it, but that it
removes the encoding for the convenience of software that's too lame to
handle a simple standard that is over 10 years old.

-- 
Aaron Schrab     [EMAIL PROTECTED]      http://www.schrab.com/aaron/
 The "data" for most coffee URIs contain no caffeine.  -- RFC 2324

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