Subject: Re: Making this list more readable

[Ian Batterbee <ian.batterbee@aut.ac.nz>]

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>On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:59:16AM -0800, Carol Anne Ogdin wrote:
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>>>    Is there any way to change the listserv so it doesn't convert control
>>>    characters (e.g., tabs, quotes and spaces at ends of lines) to '=3Dxx'
>>>    form of hex characters.  It's hard to read.  (I read the digest, so
>>>    perhaps the problem lies there, and not in the main listserv?)
>>>    Does your listserv software have a conversion table you can set that
>>>    will make things more readable?
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>  I don't see this, and I'm getting the list direct.  The =3DXX thing is
>"Quoted Printable" encoding.  Probably an option on the listserv to turn
>it on/off for the digest.
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I see the problem as well.. I think it's caused by the fact that many of 
the individual messages in the  are content-transfer-encoding: 
quoted-printable, but the digest has no content-transfer-encoding in the 
header, so the quoted-printable data inside the messages included in the 
digest is treated as plain text and incorrectly formatted.

If we know that ALL messages contained in the digest are 
quoted-printable, then it would just be a matter of changing the 
content-type of the digest, but I've noticed the problem doesn't occur 
on all messages.. some are fine.. so...  I guess people's mailers are 
simply posting as quoted-printable, and the digest process is just 
including the message body as-is