From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 10 10:16:16 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA26867 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 10:16:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26860 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 10:16:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA27907 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 18:50:56 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA12907 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 18:50:56 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA07859 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 18:33:45 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512101733.SAA07859@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: uucp installation To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 18:33:44 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512101400.PAA05828@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Dec 10, 95 03:00:09 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As J Wunsch wrote: > > =A1hola! Oooops! Who's converting these messages into quoted-printable? Quoted-printable was one of the worst mistakes of MIME (not only in my opinion). People who are hanging off mailers that don't preserve the 8th bit get what they deserve, and the rest of the world will get a message that's readable with any X11 screen, pcvt console, or even Winglows ``terminal'' program. I beg to the person who's been doing this to revert the change. (I cannot track down the location; the message left my mailer and the next two mailers on my way with ``8bit'' encoding intact, so it must be somewhere on the way to freefall or back from it.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)