[Taslug] some content-type stricter than text/plain ?

Michael Cordover mjec at mjec.net
Tue Apr 19 00:05:19 AEST 2016


I beleive that adding whitespace at the end of each line prevents
newlines from being stripped.

Michael

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016, at 02:10, Peter Billam wrote:
> Greetings all,  just testing...  Plus also:
> 
> Recently, all the   Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> emails I send to folks in the m$ Outlook world get enclosed in
> an  ----- Original Message -----  section in their replies, in a
> Totally Mutilated Reformatted form, with new lines eliminated.
> Is there a magic formula I can invoke like   Content-Type:
>   text/plain/alreadyformatted/containsvalidnewlines/handsoff;
> or something like that ?
> 
> Regards,  Peter Billam
> 
> P.S.  On the perils of closed-source, from the BBC
> (not normally a hotbed of activism), quoting Wired:
> 
>   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35984185
>   The problem with forced tech obsolescence
>   Nest - the Google-owned smart thermostat company - is giving up on
>   its Revolv product, a little device that you can use to control other
>   smart devices in your home ... To be clear - that doesn't just mean it
>   will no longer be updated, it means it'll stop functioning altogether.
>   Cease to be.  "My house will stop working," wrote Mr Gilbert.
>   Writing in Wired magazine, Klint Finley described the move as
>   proof that the so-called "Internet of Things" cannot be trusted.
> 
> P.P.S.  Nice to see a list again :-)
> 
> http://www.pjb.com.au      pj at pjb.com.au     (03) 6278 9410
> "Follow the charge, not the particle."  --  Richard Feynman
>  from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949
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