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Subject: Re: On the use of 8-bit transfer
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 09:54:22 +0100
From: "Harald T. Alvestrand" <hta@dale.uninett.no>

Note that:
- the languishing son-of-1036 document by Henry Spencer recommends
  1) NOT regarding News as 8-bit clean, except in an "area of
     agreement" (like, I suppose, relcom.* or no.*)
  2) USING MIME headers to say what you are actually doing
- gatewaying between Mail and News is a pain anyway, and should be
  done CAREFULLY
- downgrading from 8bit to 7bit MIME is IMHO a requirement for
  practical use of 8-bit in SMTP.

           Harald A