Doping and game theory

On Monday, 6 June 2011 12:17:14 UTC-7, Frederick the Great wrote:
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Ryan Cousineau wrote:


a bunch of long lines in a non-complying usenet message.

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OK, I'm actually going to try to fix this problem and see if I can get the lines to wrap at 70-80 columns. This is a first test; can you read this paragraph normally? It looks correct to me from here, and in this text field is about four lines of text, wrapped at "lines/paragraph/four/[last line short]"

This is a second paragraph which is not very long at all. I'm getting tired of typing, so this is only two lines. I'm using Chrome on XP for this test..

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Ryan Cousineau wrote:

On Monday, 6 June 2011 12:17:14 UTC-7, Frederick the Great wrote:
In article

,
Ryan Cousineau wrote:


a bunch of long lines in a non-complying usenet message.

OK, I'm actually going to try to fix this problem and see if I can get the lines to wrap at 70-80 columns. This is a first test; can you read this paragraph normally? It looks correct to me from here, and in this text field is about four lines of text, wrapped at "lines/paragraph/four/[last line short]"

This is a second paragraph which is not very long at all. I'm getting tired of typing, so this is only two lines. I'm using Chrome on XP for this test.

Your message has these header lines.

Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I ran telnet to port 119 of my news server
and downloaded your message directly;
then got a hex dump. Here is a portion.

00007b0: 747a 0d0a 0d0a 4f4b 2c20 4927 6d20 6163 tz....OK, I'm ac
00007c0: 7475 616c 6c79 2067 6f69 6e67 2074 6f20 tually going to
00007d0: 7472 7920 746f 2066 6978 2074 6869 7320 try to fix this
00007e0: 7072 6f62 6c65 6d20 616e 6420 7365 6520 problem and see
00007f0: 6966 2049 2063 616e 2067 6574 2074 6865 if I can get the
0000800: 203d 0d0a 6c69 6e65 7320 746f 2077 7261 =..lines to wra
0000810: 7020 6174 2037 302d 3830 2063 6f6c 756d p at 70-80 colum
0000820: 6e73 2e20 5468 6973 2069 7320 6120 6669 ns. This is a fi
0000830: 7273 7420 7465 7374 3b20 6361 6e20 796f rst test; can yo
0000840: 7520 7265 6164 2074 6869 7320 7061 723d u read this par=
0000850: 0d0a 6167 7261 7068 206e 6f72 6d61 6c6c ..agraph normall
0000860: 793f 2049 7420 6c6f 6f6b 7320 636f 7272 y? It looks corr
0000870: 6563 7420 746f 206d 6520 6672 6f6d 2068 ect to me from h
0000880: 6572 652c 2061 6e64 2069 6e20 7468 6973 ere, and in this
0000890: 2074 6578 7420 6669 656c 6420 693d 0d0a text field i=..
00008a0: 7320 6162 6f75 7420 666f 7572 206c 696e s about four lin
00008b0: 6573 206f 6620 7465 7874 2c20 7772 6170 es of text, wrap
00008c0: 7065 6420 6174 2022 6c69 6e65 732f 7061 ped at "lines/pa
00008d0: 7261 6772 6170 682f 666f 7572 2f5b 6c61 ragraph/four/[la
00008e0: 7374 206c 696e 6520 7368 6f3d 0d0a 7274 st line sho=..rt

The line breaks you put in are there;
but encoded as soft line breaks by
equal sign---carriage return---line feed

I think your interface (google) is out of bounds in doing so.
They probably do it so they can display the message in their
http documents

My newsreader ignores them; or at least with
any preference I set it to so far. Sorry for the confusion.

You can read up on quoted printable at
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt
6.7(4)-(5)
To get an idea of quoted-printable fragility see
the NOTE to 6.7.

For an overview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable

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Michael Press