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avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:

>>  Don't take them out of the spec: you may want them later,and a standard
>>way of doing them is desirable.

>Nobody calls to change SMTP commands. All we need is to get rid of the
>7-bit restriction.

Which restriction?  On SunOs 4.1.2, sendmail transmits 8 bits chars
without problem, and it do use SMTP.  Obviously, if you send messages to
7 bits hosts, the 8th bit will be lost (which give funny chars...), but
there should not be other problem, unless the software is bugged.

Anyway, the problem is no longer that it is difficult to use 8 bits
chars.  We need them, and we will use them.  It is no longer acceptable
in current computer technology to be unable to write one's own language
without spelling mistakes!  This is simply anachronistic.
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