Re: Why is = being replaced with =3D in my FAQ

Pamela Greene (pgreene@optics.rochester.edu)
Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:43:30 -0500 (EST)

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Bill Ward wrote:
> The good news is that most modern news/mail reading software should
> automagically decode your message and put the = signs back. I would
> suggest that you see if you can turn off the quoted-printable encoding
> in your posting/mailing software for sending your FAQ, however.

Definitely. The MIME encoding also changes any "F" at the start of a
line to "=7F" or some such. Since the faq-server doesn't understand
MIME, it can't find the From or Followup-To headers in your FAQ, so it
rejects it. (The automatic FAQ-checker has the same problem.)

-- 
- Pam Greene
one of the *.answers moderators, news-answers-request@mit.edu

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