Re: Re: Explaining QM to the layperson

[PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU]

> Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 12:47:42 -0400 (EDT)
> From: DOUGLANJ@snymorva.cs.snymor.edu
>
> Brian, indeed, your posting has something encoded. End-of-line indicators
> come across as = signs and occasionally I'll see F6 or some other code.
> Frankly, I have always assumed this happens (to other posters as well)
> because my college has a very primitive mail system that doesn't permit
> any formatting and apparently doesn't interpret any either.

That's basic email. The other kind comes in (at least) two flavors. One
is MIME, the Internet's "official" standard for how the fancy stuff
should be encoded and handled. But = at line ends and embedded F6 are
usually the symptoms of a proprietary package, originally made for LAN
use, but now being used for Internet email as well. The solution
there is for the sender to turn all that off and export plain ASCII
(a.k.a. 7-bit ASCII, plain text, etc.) only: because only another copy
of that proprietary mailer can read that stuff. For example, if he has
Microsoft Exchange and you have Lotus Notes, you can't read each other's
output, except plain ASCII.

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