Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

["Elaine C. Sharpe" <elaine@southernstarsolutions.com>]

In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Elaine C. Sharpe
><elaine@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".