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From: "Jack De Winter" <jack@wildbear.on.ca>
Subject: Re: draft-ietf-drums-msg-fmt-00.txt
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At 08:47 PM 12/2/96 -0800, Gregory J. Woodhouse wrote:
>It seems to me that the idea method of treating mail with embedded NULs is
>to base64 encode the message and assign a generic media type (if none
>exists, or if the existing one is not valid) such as
>application/octet-stream.

Then there is the problem of whether this should be considered a 7 bit
or 8 bit message, what default charset should be used, and whether or
not QuotedPrintable is a viable option.

regards,
Jack