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What policy should a site adopt when forwarding Mime articles ?
There are currently sites posting and sending articles in 8bit
(Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit), which is fine on the 8-bit
news systems.  But I doubt that currently the sender would
encode it in "quoted-printable" before transmitting to a 7-bit
site.

Is it reasonnable if a site performs such conversion before
forwarding the article to its 7-bit neighbors (and possibly to
many other sites behind).

I offten see articles coded in "8bit" arriving here, for example
in comp.sys.next groups.  I can forward them as is to the other
sites, regardless if they support 7 or 8 bit, or encode them in
"quoted-printable", and at this point articles would get converted
back only if the newsreader has the adequate software.

This is not a technical question... software already exists
(in beta :)) for converting articles within the news system.

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