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- From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
- Message-ID: <Bz67Ap.9nu@exnet.co.uk>
- Organization: ExNet Systems Ltd Public Access News, London, UK
- References: <Bz2298.11K@zoo.toronto.edu> <4yyNVB4w165w@blues.kk.sub.org> <th0efeo@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:44:48 GMT
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- In article <th0efeo@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
- >problems in products that I worked on years ago. Most people just do
- >not think upgrading a systems that works well enough for them is a good
- >use of their time. People who to try to force them to upgrade their
- >systems are either ignored or castigated. That may not be sensible or
- >convenient, but it is a fact.
-
- If it's not broke don't fix it...
-
- I might be getting old to say that, and I don't always follow it (B^>),
- but there are oh so many things to do in life, and oh so many things
- that are genuinely and clearly broken and in need of fixing, that
- `fixing' 7-bit paths when MIME is said to make their presence
- unimportant...
-
- Remember, 7-bit paths are not broken for US English, the language of
- the owners of much of the equipment in question.
-
- Ie, if MIME is an end-to-end fix which doesn't bother intermediaries
- and does solve the problems, why chose a method that *does* bother the
- intermediaries?
-
- I say this with no strong feelings either way except that if there is a
- way for *me* to avoid spending another n-hour session with my mailer,
- I'll prefer that solution.
-
- Damon
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- Damon Hart-Davis Internet: dhd@exnet.co.uk, d@hd.org
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