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Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

> I have to admit that this is a very strong argument. It could
> probably convince me, if the situation in Usenet were not already
> such a mess. I agree that it is sometimes a good thing to preserve a
> current working state in order to maximize compatibility. But
> sometimes it is a good thing to dare a reform. Which is the case for
> Usenet is probably a matter of estimation. I think I have stated most
> of my arguments.

RFC violations in Usenet are commonplace in Northern Europe and Germany
anyways. dk.* and no.* users complained when leafnode didn't accept
their unencoded 8-bit headers. (At least, there's no newsgroup such as
no.=F8stfold - which Arnt Gulbrandsen, original author of leafnode, was
concerned about.)

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Matthias Andree