From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <024801c05583$5130c000$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20001121174543.7C373199E4@mail.cse.psu.edu>, <024a01c053e8$2e14b140$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> <86g0kkylcr.fsf@gollum.esys.ca> Subject: Re: [9fans] problems with marshal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:26:45 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 307fd59e-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From: Lyndon Nerenberg > > The transports might be, however the MTAs are *not*. Try throwing > 8bit content with NULs at an SMTP server that doesn't advertise (or > with which you haven't negotiated) 8BITMINE. the discussion was about 8 bit characters. admittedly, nul is part of the set of 8 bit characters, but it was never part of the discussion. the plan 9 utf encoding will never send a nul as a multi-byte sequence. anyway, we're talking about text messages. as i have told numerous people (but not in this group): the M in SMTP means mail, the F in FTP means file. grafting generalised file transfer onto 821/822 was a heinous error.