From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Latin 1 in non-MIME news postings?
Date: 03 Sep 1998 10:22:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3emttxgac.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "03 Sep 1998 13:03:17 -0400"
Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
> "RA" == Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> RA> How am I confusing the two?
> 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.
Yes, but legal is not what I'm talking about. It's completely legal to
send MIME-encoded data in news. However, the headers that tell you that
it's MIME-encoded data don't mean anything in news, and therefore it's
technically not legal to make assumptions based on their content.
Like, say, decoding articles.
It's a minor pedantic point, yes, but it's one of the things that annoys
me about RFC 1036. Probably one of the more minor ones.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-03 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-02 7:33 Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-02 9:49 ` Jost Krieger
1998-09-02 11:24 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-03 10:15 ` Russ Allbery
[not found] ` <x7soi9yx8s.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1998-09-03 16:47 ` Russ Allbery
[not found] ` <x7k93lw2lm.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1998-09-03 17:22 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
1998-09-03 20:48 ` Richard Coleman
1998-09-03 17:35 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1998-09-03 10:27 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-09-02 10:42 ` jean-luc cassel
1998-09-02 12:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-07 20:15 ` Kai Grossjohann
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