Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:38:27 +0100 (MET)
From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
To: ietf-drums <drums@cs.utk.edu>
cc: Web4Groups User Requirements Mailing List <ratause@dsv.su.se>,
        mailnews-l@segate.sunet.se
Subject: On the use of 8-bit transfer
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Is it correct that ietf-drums will recommend people to avoid using
8-bit MIME unless they know that all the recipients and intervening
mailers can handle 8-bit MIME?

What about 8-bit in Usenet News? Is it permitted? It seems to happen
very often.

If 8-bit is customary in Usenet News, but should be avoided in
e-mail, then this means that if the same message is sent to both
news and e-mail, or forwarded between these two environments,
then the message may have to be translated from 8-bit to 7-bit
format (using Quoted-Printable or Base64) or the reverse in
gateways between news and e-mail. Is this correct?

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Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme