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Den 15-Dec-96 01:48:48 skrev Philip Stokes f�lgende om "Re: 8-bit on mail (was:
Re: Open Letter To Amigan's! - message1.wps (1/1))":

> 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.

So, they are getting what they deserve for running obsolete software. Fine
with me, really.

> 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.

Fortunately, there is ESMTP, which allows mail gateways to announce 8-bit
capability (among other things), and fortunately, most mail gateways are ESMTP
capable.

Does anybody know of an actual problem with 8-bit letters/postings not reaching
the destination intact?

Regards,

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