Re: [NTLK] Funky subject lines...

From: Stainless Steel Rat (ratinox_at_peorth.gweep.net)
Date: Tue Jul 17 2001 - 23:07:00 EDT


* Victor Rehorst <victor_at_newtontalk.net> on Tue, 17 Jul 2001
| People using MS Outlook which seems to be using some kind of non-standard

Oh, its "standard" all right. It's called "Quoted Printable". Or more
colloquially "Quoted Unreadable". It isn't supposed to be used in Subject
headers, though. Thank you, Microsoft, for "embracing and extending".

| extention to thread messages together by subject lines, as well as
| URI-encoding (the %nn things) characters for no reason.

Which is dumb because replies MUST have either an In-Reply-To or References
header for exactly that purpose. Thank you, Microsoft, for reinventing a
20 year old wheel.

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