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- From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.184057.23646@twg.com>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:45:16 GMT
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- brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
- > I say, let such articles break on machines with old software.
- ...
- > b) If you're a truly major node, one of the top 100 on Brian's
- > graph, you had better have 8 bit clean news software. But there
- > are only a small number of you, so we can manage it.
-
- Okay .. hmmm.. "who elected him ghod anyway...?" ;-) ;-)
-
- Seriously it is not a good idea to break existing things. It's bad karma
- and all that (I can say "bad karma" now that I live in California ... ).
-
- Please, don't "just send 8" .. this has been hashed around on the IETF-SMTP
- mailing list many times and there are occasions where it will break. For
- instance if a character happens to look like `.' when you strip it down
- to 7 bits ..
-
- I expect "just send 8" will work most of the time but will occasionally break,
- and that's unacceptable.
-
- What happened to the NNTPv2 work that Eliot was doing?
-
- <- David Herron <david@twg.com> (work) <david@davids.mmdf.com> (home)
- <-
- <- During the '80s Usenet's mantra was: "Not all the world's a VAX".
- <- During the '90s I hope it becomes: "Not all the world's DOS (ick)".
-