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In article <1i22s8INNca9@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:
>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.

The sender shouldn't be using 8bit CTE unless he is sure that all sites
reached by the article can cope properly with 8-bit encodings.  All the
relevant standards, at this time, specify 7-bit transmission, so no site
is obliged to handle 8-bit stuff correctly except by prearrangement.

>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).

You *must not* forward articles using 8-bit encodings to neighbors who
have not explicitly agreed to receive such articles.  See above comment
on standards.  The legitimate actions are to convert the article or
decline to forward it.  Converting it sounds reasonable to me.
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