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>>>>> Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>:

> Virtually every MUA talks MIME today, several MTAs (among them
> sendmail) and MDAs (among them maildrop) and filters have options to
> convert quoted-printable text/* to 8bit text/*.

That wasn't the point.  My lesson learnt, was: if you try doing things
strictly by the standard, you risk being the one that breaks something
that "just works".