On 05/11/2010 01:05 PM, g wrote: > > what i said was; > > }> i was filtering out *base 64* posters, but there are several of them > }> who do appear to be rather versed in their knowledge. tho i do wish > }> they would show more of their knowledge by posting *text/plain*. > Yes, which was confusing to me since there is no relationship between the two. > and should have clarified by further stating that base 64 is a waste also > because of it using 2 bytes to represent 1 byte. > It is only a waste when it is used unnecessarily. Generally, I've found that UA's these days do a fairly good job, unless overridden by the user, of picking an appropriate CTE. I say "generally" since it makes even less sense to use quoted-printable when encoding a message that is mostly in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. Not that you'll see this on the list. > > >> So, it really is just about html posters. >> > actually, html posters who post text/html when they could be posting > text/plain, are posting both text/plain and text/html. > FWIW, I keep only the last 7 days worth of message from this list. I rely on the list archives and searching them. However, 15% of the last 7 days posts are multipart where one part is html. > > with mozilla tsl's, most of them post thru news groups which do not allow > use of html. but they are even worse about top posting and not stripping > dead history than what is with this list. > > and, most of the mozilla posters use bogus names so they do not get spam. > or at least that is their excuse. > > > because i do save all emails, for referencing, i have a script that cleans > out history down to '>>>' max, which cleans email files by an easy 15% to > 20%. there are several other things that i grep out and i have had some > months clean up by up to 40%. not a lot, but enough to make it worth it. > > > one day i will/may set up a prefilter to strip headers, text/html, sig, > and enigmail sig, as i did years ago. then it will matter little as to how > anyone post. :) > > > anyway, glad we came to an understanding. :) > Yeah, too bad that filtering on the receiving end only "masks" the problem. :-( I don't let any of the above bother me. As I implied earlier....I just ignore the entire post/question. > > i have an early meeting in morning and need to crash, so, > > later. > > -- Amy: Aw, he looks like a little insane drunken angel. 葛斯克 愛德華 / 台 北市八德路四段
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