[softwarelist] Re: pdf, ovation, risc oss and money

  • From: Alan Leighton <alan.leighton2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:37:12 +0100

In message <571e6f144e.Alan.Adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Alan Adams <alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <1a803f144e.alan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Alan Leighton <alan.leighton2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> In message <001d01c65a98$51bfa200$145ab4ca@XPHOMEPC>
>>           "Dan McCarthy" <danmccat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>I may not be an entrepreneur but would readily donate =A360
>>> 
>>>>--=20
>>>>Alan Leighton (Rev Dr)
>>>>Priory Lodge
>>>>86b Church Lane, Eston, TS6 9QR
>>> 
>>> As an aside, it could avoid confusion if people used the word Pound on
>>> this list. On this system it appeared that Dr Leighton was offering to pay
>>> three hundred and sixty Australian dollars
>>> 
>> I do not know that happened, I said 60 UK pounds. Where all this =20
>> comes from I havent a clue.
>> 
>> Lets get that clear ;-)
> 
> It's a problem we've seen before on this list. Briefly, your email is
> send using an encoding format called printed-quotable, because it has
> a pound sign which, being a top-bit-set character, isn't in the set of
> characters allowed by email. (email uses the Telnet protocol as a
> carrier, and Telnet uses the characters with Ascii codes less than 32
> - the so-called control characters - to control its data flow. It is a
> 7-bit transport, so cannot carry top-bit-set characters. Mime
> encoding, with various encoding systems, is the way round that.)
> 
> The email you sent would have had an ideitifier line describing the
> following part as quoted-printable, but the list processing system has
> replaced it with a description saying text/plain, which is wrong. The
> result is that we see the qupted-printable characters.
> 
> =20 is the substitution for a space, normally only inserted where the
> space is at the end of a line. The pound character is ASCII A3 (hex)
> so is encoded as =A3.
> 
I have sent emails for ages and no one has ever said that. I asked a 
few to receive emails from me with Pound signs. They all said it was 
fine.


Puzzled from Middlesbrough.


Using Messenger 4.08. Mime option is ticked.

Please put me right.... I think.


-- 
Alan Leighton (Rev Dr)
Priory Lodge
86b Church Lane, Eston, TS6 9QR

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