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Re: mime crap

#164
From: Geoff Gass
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:08
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barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> wrote:
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>
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, John Rappe wrote:
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>> barbie gee wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
>>>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> so there was a post where the @gmx something guy suggested turning off
>>>>>>> "metamail" something in my tin config so I can stop being nagged by the
>>>>>>> stupid shit Barb's tin generates.
>>>>
>>>>>> Barb uses Pine. There is a configuration setting to get Pine to generate
>>>>>> plain text 7-bit ASCII even though it's quoting a message with a
>>>>>> non-ASCII character in it. Without turning off that feature, Pine
>>>>>> encodes all sorts of stupid stuff.
>>>>
>>>>> nobody's been able to tell her what that is...
>>>>
>>>> Huh?
>>>>
>>>> If downgrade-multipart-to-text were set, then Pine won't create messages
>>>> with multipart messages with MIME boundaries, which it does by default
>>>> in reply to such messages under certain circumstances I don't understand.
>>>
>>> okay, it's set.  Try me out now.
>>
>> here ya go: ??????
>>
>> followups set to chi.test
>>
>>
>
> you put in like a cent sign, some kinda double squiggle, a half, a yen, a 
> paragraph and a russian r, yeah?

comes through to me as question marks, but no mime crap
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From: Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com>
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Subject: Re: mime crap
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:08:29 +0000 (UTC)
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