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Just fyi,

in article <BytMGH.2Fy@zoo.toronto.edu>, Henry Spencer writes:

HS% Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc
HS% From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
HS% Subject: Re: 8-bit news
HS% Message-ID: <BytMGH.2Fy@zoo.toronto.edu>
HS% Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1992 04:43:26 GMT
HS% References: <1992Dec04.102114.8049@clarinet.com> <ByqLnM.A87@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <ByqpI9.Avn@sci.kun.nl> <Byqy7C.A0n@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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HS% In article <Byqy7C.A0n@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
HS% >>So no revision is necessary, you can just start using MIME.
HS% >
HS% >  Got to have a new spec in an RFC if you really want to use MIME in
HS% >news.  The only current specification for news article formats is
HS% >RFC-1036.  MIME is expressly limited to Internet email.  I was part of
HS% >the MIME working group and we expressly kept netnews out of scope.
HS%
HS% However, some of us news types were watching the proceedings, with an
HS% eye on suitability to news.  There really isn't any particular reason
HS% why news needs to differ from mail here.  Nothing in 1036 is inconsistent
HS% with use of MIME for message bodies.  The one place where new work is
HS% needed is for news-specific headers like Newsgroups, so you can have
HS% newsgroups with non-ASCII names and such.  If you're willing to stick
HS% to ASCII in the headers for the moment, there's no reason not to go
HS% ahead and use MIME for the bodies.
HS% --
HS% MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s.      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
HS%               -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

     Die Diskussion findet also nicht nur hier statt, und nicht nur hier
haben zwei Experten drei unterschiedliche Meinungen =:-> =:-< Vielleicht
sollte man die Diskussion, in wie weit MIME in News nun (legal) nutzbar
ist, hier wenigstens solange verschieben, bis Henry seinen son-of-1036-
Draft veröffentlicht hat.
			kai

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