Re: modem config.............

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Ross wrote:

> sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
>
> >Ross's posts drive my mail user agent nuts. They seem to contain
> >control characters, both in the raw and in quoted printable. It looks
> >like it might be byte-reversed fixed-width Unicode, but his headers
> >specifically say ISO-8859-1.
>
> >Are you using Windows 2000, or writing mail using Word 2000, >Ross? >Or
> >do you have some explicit setting to use Unicode?
>
> >Is anybody else seeing this? I'd blame my MUA, which is a beta and
> >locally hacked version of VM running on a beta XEmacs, except that I
> >know from past experience that Outhouse Excess is quite happy to
> >spew nonconformant garbage into the mail system. This is the first
> >time I've seen it from a (I assume) native English speaker running in
> >a (I assume) purely English environment, though.
>
> well most of that was just giberish to me, all i can say is it's win98 with
outlook express. the sooner i get my modem running the sooner i be able to send
you mail with unclutered headers.
> (oh! mail format is set to HTML)
>

It's Micro$oft bollocks. Your posts contain control bytes (ASCII 0s,
FE's and FF's) in the Content-Type: text/html; section, they
are not plain ascii text. Given that the standards for internet mail are
SOOOOOOOOO simple it's amazing just how stupid Microshaft have to be to
screw it up. Actually it isn't. As readers of the Halloween docs,
one of Microsoft's stategies is to embrace standards then entend them in
non standard ways to as to entrap people into only being able to use their
software. Given their strangehold on the desktop market it's a good ploy -
for them.

If you turned off the HTML rubbish (HTML is not mail it is for WWW
content), it might get better. Given that quite a lot of the internet is
not SMTP 8-bit clean I'm surprised this stuff hasn't been commented on
before.

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