Re: 8-bit on mail (was: Re: Open Letter To Amigan's! - message1.wps (1/1)) - Article 61 - go-pugleaf

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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: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 00:00

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Nyk TARR (Nyk@tomobiki.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>
> I hope I'm correct in my belief that news is seven-bit and mail is
> eight-bit. If this is not the case, then I'm going to have to be more
> diligent in checking responses to my mails.

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
restricted to an 8-bit network. If you post an article containing high
ASCII characters anywhere else, the only thing you can guarantee is
that someone somewhere will either see a different character to the
one you intended, or will not be able to see it at all.

Mail (SMTP anyway) is most definately a 7-bit protocol, which manages
to transport 8-bit characters by some clever encoding using MIME. If
you try to send unconverted 8-bit mail it may reach its destination,
it may be converted to MIME by the transport system or it may just be
rejected.

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: 1996/12/15
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