🚀 go-pugleaf

brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
> I say, let such articles break on machines with old software.
...
>	b) If you're a truly major node, one of the top 100 on Brian's
>	graph, you had better have 8 bit clean news software.  But there
>	are only a small number of you, so we can manage it.

Okay .. hmmm.. "who elected him ghod anyway...?" ;-) ;-)

Seriously it is not a good idea to break existing things.  It's bad karma
and all that (I can say "bad karma" now that I live in California ... ).

Please, don't "just send 8" .. this has been hashed around on the IETF-SMTP
mailing list many times and there are occasions where it will break.  For
instance if a character happens to look like `.' when you strip it down
to 7 bits ..

I expect "just send 8" will work most of the time but will occasionally break,
and that's unacceptable.

What happened to the NNTPv2 work that Eliot was doing?

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