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[Scott Schwartz schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu]

Greg Nenych <gnenych@ncrcan.canada.ATTGIS.COM> writes:
| smtpqer is part of the stock SVR4 SMTP software.  

But wait, it gets better... NCR Australia says:

X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0
                                                                               
User mail received addressed to the following unknown addresses:
  ATTSYD/MSM2SYD/postmaster

| Probably.  However, the offending message did not have a "Content-Length:"
| line or anything else to clue the mailer in to the fact that the message
| had non-7bit-ascii contents.

Naturally: It wasn't a MIME format message.  Even if we slap all the
mime stuff on our messages, silly mailers can sill bounce our 8 bit
messages.

| Actually, that's 8/16 bit UTF characters depending on the encoding.
| This stuff will cause even more problems for netnews when, hopefully, this
| list will be gatewayed into comp.os.plan9.

No, actually it won't.  C news and INN handle 8 bit messages perfectly
well.  The only reason internet mailers have trouble is because the
folks at ietf didn't want to standardize the widely existing practice
of "just send 8", thus giving authors of new mailers licence to do the
wrong thing.