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   Phil Carmody to Eli the Bearded   
   Re: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   
   03 Jun 21 18:28:17   
   
   From: pc+usenet@asdf.org   
      
   Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:   
   > In alt.anagrams, Earle Jones  wrote:   
   >> *   
   >> I=20suspect=20that=20my=20most=20famous=20anagram=20is=20this=20on=   
   >> e:   
   >   
   > That's really ugly. It looks like your news software is setting only   
   > _some_ of the headers needed for MIME decoding (and it being annoyingly   
   > aggressive with QP encoding: space needs to be encoded only where it is   
   > ambiguous, eg, end of line).   
   >   
   > I see these two headers on your post:   
   >   
   > 	Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8   
   > 	Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable   
      
   Yebbut the above is QP - you were warned!   
      
   However as everyone knows:   
      
   quoted-printable =   
   Portable? Quit! End!   
      
   Definitely not this:   
      
   quoted-printable =   
   Quip "no bad letter"?   
      
   Phil   
   --   
   We are no longer hunters and nomads. No longer awed and frightened, as we have   
   gained some understanding of the world in which we live. As such, we can cast   
   aside childish remnants from the dawn of our civilization.   
   -- NotSanguine on SoylentNews, after Eugen Weber in /The Western Tradition/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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