🚀 go-pugleaf

Simon Brown (simes@amdev.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> 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?

A newsfeed and a newsserver are not necessarily the same thing.

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

Hmmm. A strange case of deja-vu has hit me :)

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> Subject: Re: Ideas for a Amiga DIS anyone?
> From: pettern@icenet.no (Petter Nilsen)
> Date: 1996/07/04
> Message-Id: 706.6759T487T308@icenet.no
> Organization: Ultima Thule Software (The THOR Team)
> X-Url: http://www.icenet.no/~pettern
> Newsgroups: demon.tech.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.programmer

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> When did any RFC say anything about a newsgroup header on email?
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Wasn't it shortly thereafter that Thor was changed to allow posting to
newsgroups via email?

Phil
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