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In <9306021502.AA16844@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz> Dick Schoeller, ZKO3-3/Y25  01-Jun-1993 0839 <schoeller@gooey.enet.dec.com> writes :
>
> [ many clever remarks deleted ]
>
>
> ... As such, you are prevented from using
> ISO8859-1 for European mail and get forced into either 7 bit local character
> set or working around the lack of accents by using stupid formats like Gr"u"se.
> If you are working within a corporation or between 2 corportations with an
> agreement to use the 8 bit extension to MAIL-11 you can get around that.
> All of the above applies to NNTP as well.
>
Rewriting is IMHO not needed. A change of mail standard from 7 to 8 bits
would be much more beneficial (and easier).
>
> In any case, I would not try to translate SMTP or NNTP anymore than I would
> try to translate the term ASCII.  These are, as far as I know, international
> acronyms and should be left alone.
>
Just my words.


Erik Plesner