In the process, I'm noticing a few formatting problems, which I thought it'd be helpful to point out here. None of these are fatal, but they're distracting when one's trying to read a story...

Like One Fine Mess, which I pointed out before, Leap Years 2 suffers from MIME-Encrustation (random =XX characters). I guess the posts were mailed at some point to someone whose mailer didn't grok MIME.

In both cases, it looks like non-printable-ASCII characters in the text triggered the MIMEification -- a ^L page break in Leap Years 2, and the é of "détente" in One Fine Mess. But, of course, once MIME'ing starts, it clobbers a bunch of other stuff too -- trailing spaces turn into trailing =20's, and equal signs turn into =3D's. Most annoying.

I hope this is helpful!

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Jonathan Lennox
lennox@cs.columbia.edu