Future of cctalk/cctech - text encoding

Daniel Seagraves dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net
Thu Jun 18 08:34:40 CDT 2020


> On Jun 18, 2020, at 4:03 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> Peter Coghlan wrote:
>> Does anyone use ASCII anymore?
> 
> I read and write my email with Emacs running in a terminal emulator.
> I rarely need anything beoynd codepoint 126.

I vote we move the list to an Exchange server behind a SSL VPN and mandate the use of Outlook, then force all messages to be in quoted-printable encoding. This way nobody “wins” and everyone is equally miserable. It’s only fair.


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