From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16681 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Coleman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Latin 1 in non-MIME news postings? Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 16:48:30 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199809032048.QAA05695@math.gatech.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155513 29267 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:11:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:11:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA03399 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:52:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAF07511; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:23:30 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 03 Sep 1998 15:52:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA04172 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:52:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from math.gatech.edu (root@math.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA03389 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:51:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from math.gatech.edu (coleman@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA05695 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:48:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "03 Sep 1998 13:03:17 EDT." Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16681 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16681 > Vanilla MIME is 100% compliant with RFC 822. 8-bit data is *NOT* allowed > in a MIME message; it must be encoded into a 7-bit format. MIME is > completely legal in news. > > SMTP added the '8bit' transfer type. This is not a MIME standard type... > that is, it is a standard MIME type for SMTP, not for MIME. That being the > case, 8bit is valid *ONLY* for SMTP traffic. This is not correct. RFC2045 clearly defines the type "8bit" as a valid Content-Transfer-Encoding. Here is one of the relevant paragraphs from RFC2045: The Content-Transfer-Encoding values "7bit", "8bit", and "binary" all mean that the identity (i.e. NO) encoding transformation has been performed. As such, they serve simply as indicators of the domain of the body data, and provide useful information about the sort of encoding that might be needed for transmission in a given transport system. The terms "7bit data", "8bit data", and "binary data" are all defined in Section 2. The MIME standard does not force 7bit transport. -- Richard Coleman coleman@math.gatech.edu