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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: Philip Stokes
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:00
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Neil Bothwick (neil@wirenet.u-net.com) wrote:
> Hi there Philip Stokes, I believe it was you who said:
> 
> > Wasn't it shortly thereafter that Thor was changed to allow posting to
> > newsgroups via email?
> 
> Thor has never directly supported news posting by mail. There was an
> arexx script to convert news postings to email, but that was just
> something I wrote to get round one of Demon's scalable news blackouts.

Well, you said at the time that Thor's code had to be changed to
permit news headers in email, but Petter's reply explains it.

:)

Phil
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From: news@stokes.demon.co.uk (Philip Stokes)
Subject: Re: 8-bit on mail (was: Re: Open Letter To Amigan's! - message1.wps (1/1))
Date: 1996/12/20
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