Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 23:55:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: list info
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In-Reply-To: <19990225104809.A5620@tardis.ed.ac.uk>; from Mark Brown on Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 10:48:10AM +0000
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From: Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com>
Reply-To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com

On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 10:48:10AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 08:56:12PM -0500, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> 
> > j =3D 20??? That looks ill-formed to me. -funroll-all-loops or no
> 
> =3D looks like the fault of the MUA rather than the sender - one of the
> MIME encodings is mostly US-ASCII with 8 bit characters escaped as =nn
> where nn is a hexidecimal number.  All the =3D sequences should probably
> be read as =.

I wonder _why_ they chose "=" as the escape character. *shrug*.

I guess DJ Delorie was using one of the real(tm) MUAs, not one of the toy
things we ause...

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