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Re: 8-bit on mail (was: Re: Open Letter To Amigan's! - message1.wps (1/1))

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From: Simon Brown
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:00
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Quoth Petter Nilsen:

> In article <96121502927.phil@stokes.demon.co.uk>, news@stokes.demon.co.uk
> (Philip Stokes) wrote:
> 
> > No, some (many?) newsfeeds may be 8-bit, still many more are only
> > 7-bit, therefore you cannot rely on news being any more than 7-bit
> > unless you are posting to a group who's circulation you know is
> 
> You'll have a hard time finding a non-8-bit clean newsserver nowadays. The most
> used newsserver, INN, certainly handles 8-bit fine.  Can you name just _one_
> piece of newsserver software that is not 8-bit clean?

Anywhere where news is transmitted over SMTP. As mentioned in RFC1036.

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From: Simon Brown <simes@amdev.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: 8-bit on mail (was: Re: Open Letter To Amigan's! - message1.wps (1/1))
Date: 1996/12/18
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