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Article #403Re: 8-bit news
From: Ed Anselmo
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:49
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:49
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>>>>> In article <1992Dec13.100023.7056@clarinet.com>, >>>>> brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes: Brad> For things like rich text, non-ASCII characters, I agree that Brad> using encodings that fit into ASCII is a good idea. Brad> However, when it comes to graphics and other binary information Brad> in multimedia news articles, I find this to be too much of a Brad> kludge in the service of old software. Where does MIME say that you have to use a 7-bit encoding? If you look in RFC 1341, you'll see that MIME doesn't preclude the use of 8-bit clean transports. With graphics/sound/smell (name your favorite multimedia thingy), you still have to encode content-type, just like you do with richtext and non-ascii characters. MIME provides a way to do this.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!hri.com!noc.near.net!nic.near.net!not-for-mail From: anselmo@nic.near.net (Ed Anselmo) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc Subject: Re: 8-bit news Message-ID: <1gft35INN771@nic.near.net> Date: 13 Dec 92 17:49:25 GMT Article-I.D.: nic.1gft35INN771 References: <th0efeo@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> <1gdin0INN2rm@agate.berkeley.edu> <Bz6F6z.DvK@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec13.100023.7056@clarinet.com> Organization: NEARnet, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: nic.near.net In-reply-to: brad@clarinet.com's message of Sun, 13 Dec 1992 10:00:23 GMT