[ILUG] Re: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

[Aidan Kehoe]

 > > Wow. I know esr makes a big deal about how he's an old-time hacker
 > > (relatively speaking) and all, but really. MIME's been established for
 > > quite a while now, and if his mailer doesn't handle it, maybe /he/
 > > needs to be asking a few questions of his own...
 > 
 > Nice straw man you have, there.
 > 
 > Since when does use of MIME in e-mail require Quoted-Printable encoding?

It doesn't require it, but support for MIME does imply support for
Quoted-Printable. Cf. rfc 1521 . 

(One thing that pisses me off about ESR is the assumption of some kind
of hacker hive mind implicit in stuff like `It sometimes looks like
we're hostile to newbies and the ignorant. But this isn't really
true.' Me, there's days when I'm hostile to newbies and the
ignorant. Not that I qualify for this hive-mind, anyway.)

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