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Re: 8-bit news

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From: David Collier-Brown
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:23
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ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) quotes:
|Christopher K. Davis      | ``Usenet seems to run much like the Kif (or,
|<ckd@eff.org>   EFF #14   |   for the TV generation, Klingon) high command.
|System Administrator, EFF |   Whoever takes action and can be heard wins.''
|+1 617 864 0665  [CKD1]   |   --Peter da Silva <peter@ferranti.com>

  In this case, I suspect the initiatives of our german cousins may 
make the larger problem of inappropriately-unencoded email easier:
The few programs which make up news transport will drop lots of
mailable 8-bit data into peoples's hands.
  We then watch german mailers crash and burn until we find out which
configurations/sites need to run their mail through a &07f sendmail
on their mailhub.

  This technique is know sarcastically as ``Canadian Political
Policy'': we get half the problems the Americans suffer from, three
years later.
  It's a real advantage to have someone else do a prototype for you.

  In the meantime, I'm running zmailer and mime, and watching out for
8-bit logic missles

--dave (:-)) c-b
-- 
David Collier-Brown,  | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
72 Abitibi Ave.,      | 
Willowdale, Ontario,  | York Postmaster and
CANADA. 416-223-8968  | occasional sendfail(8) consultant.
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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
Subject: Re: 8-bit news
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