> >Interestingly enough, I have more trouble with trailing spaces than
> >interjected spaces. Because of the encoding scheme favored by
> >Microsoft products, a trailing space can cause "endpress" to be
> >rendered by the judge as "endpress=20". The result is often
> >something like this:
>
> > endpress=20
> > signoff=20
> > ------=_Part_109324_8027342.1174309132351
> > Content-Type: text/html; charset=Base64
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> > Content-Disposition: inline
> > <html>signon Egamename mypassword
>
> Ah, hahaha, yes, I still do my newsgroup reading and much of my
> E-Mail in text based UNIX and I have this same problem occasionally,
> but I have ONLY experienced it in reading, I've never had a message
> I've composed in elm and sent have this happen on the sending end, at
> least not that I know of.
It's not going to happen with Mutt, Elm, Pine or any other text-mode
*nix mail program. It's not likely to happen with Claws, Kmail or
Mozilla, either. Although Claws and Thunderbird are both capable of
writing as well as reading the problematic combination of the encoding
scheme with "multipart/alternative" mime, it is not the default
behavior. It's always Microsoft Exchange Server, which is at the heart
of Hotmail and a number of cor****ate webmail applications, or mail
clients like Outlook. I can't remember a single occurrence of this
issue where I looked at the mail headers and didn't see "Microsoft".
Chris
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