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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
- Message-ID: <davecb.724685467@yorku.ca>
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- Organization: York University
- References: <CKD.92Dec15185902@loiosh.eff.org> <1glu1sINNoth@rodan.UU.NET> <CKD.92Dec15215407@loiosh.eff.org> <1gma3uINN2e6@rodan.UU.NET>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:31:07 GMT
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- In article <CKD.92Dec15215407@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
- |>And it breaks old code. And it only works with cooperating sites, but has
- |>no way to tell whether the site it's talking to is cooperating or not. And
- |>it can silently lose information by talking to an uncooperative (but
- |>standards-conforming) site that clips bits.
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- Actually it breaks some old code that misparses headers. Sendmail
- on Suns (since 3.4) and DECs (all) strip the high bits befor parsing.
- I suspect the number of broken sednmails is diminishingly small!
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- avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
- |As for receiving 8-bit information with MSB trimmed off - it still
- |will be readable. FYI (if you didn't know that before) the old ISO
- |standard 8-bit codes were designed to have exactly this property.
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- I read significant parts of the 8-bit newsgroups bet stripping bits, why
- not mail?
- What I **don't** have is 16-bit mail. That takes mime.
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- --dave (off to make sure ssmtp/rsmtp are 8-bit-clean) c-b
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