🚀 go-pugleaf

In <1990Dec20.012516.23623@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:

>			There are some methods of
>data interchange, such as most email systems, that are inherently 7-bit.
>It would be nice if we could just banish them, but compatibility is an
>albatross.

There is nothing that tells me that email systems should be _inherently 7-bit_.
In fact here in Iceland we have to hack almost every piece of communications
software to be able to use it in our _inherently 8-bit environment_.  This

I can see no reason at all for some stupid mailers to strip off the eighth bit
(including Interactive's version of sendmail).  They don't have to - and should
not - interpret the contents of the mail they are transmitting.  This is
quite different from the troff situation where a program has to know a lot
about it's input set.  So why don't you guys simply open up your mailers
and be ready with a 8-bit clean version by the end of 1991!
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Heimir Thor Sverrisson			heimir@rhi.hi.is