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Nuutti Kotivuori <nuutti.kotivuori@smarttrust.com> writes:

> Ofcourse, News is generally decidedly 8-bit clean and unmangling, so
> one might break the standard there to be nice.

In fact, old USEFOR drafts explicitly broke RFC 2015.  After some
discussion, we convinced the editor to remove this because RFC 2015 is
a bit fragile and it is not clear what happens if Joe User's OpenPGP
implementation suddenly encounters 8-bit characters.