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Re: mime crap

#167
From: HUey
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:58
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In article <slrnh8ukot.3a1.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com>, glg@tanzenmb.com 
says...
> 
> barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, John Rappe wrote:
> >
> >> 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

mime is money!

-- 
HUey
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From: HUey <huey01@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: mime crap
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:58:24 -0500
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