Re: FEDORA net etiquette
g <geleem <at> bellsouth.net>
2008-11-01 02:24:36 GMT
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advice for using FJames Wilkinson wrote:
> g wrote:
>> you use mutt. can mutt not send 'text/plain' in 8 bit?
>
> It does, and did. It looks as though somewhere en-route my last e-mail
> got recoded a couple of times, though.
gander at copy from your header as i see;
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MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <490A8564.4020701 <at> bellsouth.net>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
X-SA: 0
X-RedHat-Spam-Score: 0
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 172.16.52.254
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 172.16.48.32
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by
listman.util.phx.redhat.com id m9VMGHad022594
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> Incidentally,
<snip>
** no need going into this part now, as i think/hope
** you will see more of what i am getting at below.
> 1. Red Hat Linux 8.0 adopted UTF-8 as a default for most locales. As far
> as I am aware, all Fedora mail clients support UTF-8, and most other
> modern e-mail clients do¹. So why not make use of it?
<snip>
>> the 'guidelines' state, in general terms, 'plain text'. for some reason there
>> are posters who continue to send 'mime', 'quoted' and 'base64' instead of
>> 'text/plain 8-bit'.
>
> text/plain is a MIME term. Quoted-printable and base64 are valid
> encodings of text/plain: according to the relevant standards, being
> quoted-printable or base64 doesn’t stop an e-mail being text/plain.
to clear things a bit, i hope, in my second line above your reply,
*mime* should not have been quoted, as my dislike is primarily with
'quoted' and 'base64'. still, i do not care for mime.
'quoted' will substitute an equal sign plus a 2 byte hex code, from ascii
table for special characters, ie, *=3d* for 'equal sign' and *=20* for a
'space' if at end of a line. this to me is 'illogical'. as is rest of this
use for what is *standard ascii*.
now, in your message and in your "1." above, 3rd line is, -> do¹ <-.
which, viewed in hexeditor, after 'do' is c3 82 c2 b9 and equates to
-> 't <- and using 4 bytes to represent 2 bytes of *standard ascii*.
in your reply, line just before my reply, is -> doesn’t <-.
which, viewed in hexeditor, after 'doesn' is c3 a2 e2 82 ac e2 84 a2
and equates to -> 't <- and using 8 bytes to represent 2 bytes of
*standard ascii*.
where in again i say, and continue to say _mime_is_a_waste_. no matter
how you look at it, using 12 bytes to represent 4 bytes is 8 bytes waste.
**note** i still have not gone thru all the trouble of setting thunderbird
to be fully *mime compliant* and i see actually special coding. [waste ;o)]
> This guideline is aimed against text/HTML.
and should include 'quoted' and 'base64'...
> You may care to take a look at RFCs 2045 to 2049, the RFCs defining MIME.
i read them years back when mime came out, and a few months back, i skimmed
thru them. because you bring them up again, i will go back and read in entire.
plus a couple others that are still in my bookmarks.
later. i need to grab a bite of food and put in some more 'barn time'.
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