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Rask Ingemann Lambertsen (rask@kampsax.dtu.dk) wrote:
> Den 15-Dec-96 01:48:48 skrev Philip Stokes folgende om "Re: 8-bit on mail (was:
> Re: Open Letter To Amigan's! - message1.wps (1/1))":
> 
> > 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.

Not at all. You cannot guarantee that anyone even on an uninterrupted
8-bit feed, is going to see the same character that you typed, if it
is >ASCII 127. It depends on the character set in use on any individual
machine.

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

Well, your posts to the AWeb mailing list get autoconverted to Base64
before they arrive at the listowner's machine. Of course you need to
define what you mean by intact - all of your characters are preserved
there, but the mail is no longer exactly in the form in which you sent
it!

And articles containing high ASCII characters posted to certain bit.*
newsgroups apparently fail to negotiate the gateway to bitnet
completely.

Phil
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