On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Olin Lathrop wrote:

>> Agreed 100%. I had no idea that I *wasn't* sending plain text until
>> you pointed it out to me. (And I'm still not, unfortunately.)
>
>Here are the relevant lines from the header of your earlier message:
>
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
>This last line is the problem.  Just deleting it fixes it.  I deleted it
>then re-imported the message into Outlook Express and it put the "> " in
>front of every line when I replied to the message.  I agree this is really a
>problem in OE's handling of the message, but nonetheless the problem is
>there.

The quoted-printable conversion is applied by servers whenever there is
even a single non-ASCII character in a message sent with 7-bit encoding.
Setting 8-bit encoding by the sender fixes this. The sender should set
his/her charset to iso8859-1 (US english), or iso8859-2 (Latin 2) which
covers most corners (including foreign language characters that are often
used in names etc), send plain text, and 8 bits (not 7) if available.

Peter

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