Re: 8-bit news

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From: peter da silva
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:03

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In article <CKD.92Dec15000326@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
> That's not the problem.  TCP is 8-bit clean.  It's NNTP that's most likely
> to trash articles.  :)

OK, "uuxqt and rnews and newsrun are 8-bit clean, it's NNTP that's likely to
trash articles".

Better?

The point is that pointing fingers at UUCP links is pointless. It's the
TCP/IP links that are the problem. Because the application layer used
in TCP/IP news and mail links is not 8-bit clean.

Unfortunately, some UUCP links use dirty mail software, like sendmail.
Fortunately, there are few if any UUCP links that can't easily upgrade
to one of the 8-bit-clean routing agents.
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From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: 8-bit news
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