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Article #412Re: 8-bit news
From: peter da silva
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:56
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:56
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In article <th0efeo@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
> What Henry wrote was literally true. "There is no way to mandate
> updates."
It's also as pointless as "RFC822 will never be changed". If enough people
simply start using ISO8859.1 or NET-UTF for casual mail, enough systems
will be forced to upgrade that the remaining bogons can simply be ignored.
When was the last time you saw a line eater?
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