In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe ><ela...@southernstarsolutions.com> wrote: >> In linux.gentoo.user, Peter Humphries wrote: >>> On Monday 28 March 2011 18:27:03 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: >>> >>>> But yes, top posting does suck -- almost as badly as all the >>>> "==20" crap polluting all the kmail users' messages. Almost. >>> >>> Would you mind sending me an example of this from me and my kmail? >>> >> >> Apparently not everyone who uses kmail has the problem. >> Maybe it's the people who use html mail? > > The ==20 stuff is a result of quoted-printable MIME encoding. It does > not have anything to do with HTML but they can usually be found as > partners in crime...
Thanks for the info. Oddly, it's mostly non-geeky folks like my Mom who send me confusing mails with weird encoding issues or html with inscrutable characters. Surprised to see it here, usenet being a text medium and all. But perhaps there are a lot of members who don't know, use, or care about nntp. And maybe the gateway is merely semi-adequate at stripping non- text. Well, it's just one of those things we have to live with, I guess, like my mother's emails with links to scam sites and explaining again and again how to use google. Such a burden, being exceptionally competent, isn't it? :) -- ...she kept arranging and rearranging the rabbit and kind of waving to it. I decided, "this is the person I want to sit next to".
