This list is a constant rolling education to me.  Thanks for this 
thumbnail history, Eric: I was here for most of it, but didn't 
understand at the time.

> Setting aside philosophical or religious considerations, trying to 
> make subscribers not use QP encoding is a lost cause. It would have to
> be a very small list of reasonably technical people, and there would 
> still be cases where the messages MUST be encoded. . . . [snip]

Clear, informative, and amusing too.

-- Russ

Russell Hunt
Department of English
St. Thomas University
http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/