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Re: The question

• Posted by Larry Poos <ldpoos at CCONNECT.NET> Nov 07, 1997
• 671 views

At 01:39 AM 11/7/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Paraphrasing Hamlet:  "3D or not 3D, that is the question."  Recently
>somebody posted a question about why so many listings on the listserve
>recently were salted with '3D' symbols.  I don't recall seeing a reply to
>that question.  The moonage program (separate message accompanying this one)
>was full of 3D's, and wouldn't run until I deleted them.
>
>Now what's going on here?

Actually it is a mis-behaving MIME mailer program that is doing it. the 3D
is a HEX number for the "=" symbol and the MIME spec says that text/plain
should be 8bit unencoded text, but some mailer clients for some reason send
it as 7bit quoted-printable. In Quoted-printable all characters with the
8th bits get sent as =##, where ## is the hex number ot the characters
ascii code and the "=" symbol is coded as =3D so things like "20+20=40"
won't confuse the mail program and cause it to think that it is "20+20(".
The software that sends and recieves the message is suppose to handle this.
But Microsoft's stuff (and stuff written with their compliers) are the
worst I've seen at handling this.

Best I can do for now.


Larry D. Poos
 [Programming and System Consultant]
 [LTAD Enterprises]
 [Havelock, NC]