16 Oct
2012
16 Oct
'12
4:19 p.m.
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Mouse wrote:
Not much justification at the human layer, but quite
enough at the
software layer - the software is not in a position to tell when
"visitor's" is a suitable substitute for that "visitor?s" (for
whatever
value of ?) in the subject. And far too many people are unwilling (or
unable) to make sure they don't perpetrate such horrors accidentally.
It is. There are times when I think the cure is worse than the disease
in this case. (Most of the time I come down on the other side. But,
occasionally....)
Thank you for understanding my frustration
As for the "incomprehensibly garbled" one,
if you mean the one I quoted
at the very top of this mail,that was using ?B? rather than ?Q?,
meaning you need to use base64 to instead of quoted-printable to get
the (presumably-)intended octet string out.
Thanks. That explains it, although I'm not sure why it ocurred with that
one message.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com