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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
- Message-ID: <BzDGtw.J9u@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Keywords: ISO8859 ISO10646 8bit
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC
- References: <89RsVB3w165w@blues.kk.sub.org> <BzBJIA.3AM@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Dec16.170407.11754@coop.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:53:55 GMT
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- In article <BzBJIA.3AM@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
- > The systems are mostly orphans....
-
- In article <1992Dec16.170407.11754@coop.com> chrisg@coop.com (Chris Garrigues) writes:
- >Is it or is it not a fair assumption that such systems will be leaf
- >nodes?
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- Some are leaves. Some are not. There might be some in the de facto
- backbone, but I know for a fact that several are branches.
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- Given that safe encodings (e.g. BASE64) exist and are standard in
- MIME, we'd be foolish to ignore such encodings. Now sites that know
- that their neighbors can handle 8-bit need not use such encodings, but
- sites that don't know about their neighbors or who know the neighbor
- can't handle it could include conversion as part of the process of
- sending articles in/out.
-
- Ran
- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
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