From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16671 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Latin 1 in non-MIME news postings? Date: 03 Sep 1998 10:22:19 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155505 29228 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:11:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:11:45 +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 NAA00562 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 13:23:07 -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 LAF06689; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:54:09 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 03 Sep 1998 12:22:56 -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 MAA29709 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:22:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [36.21.0.44]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA00547 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 13:22:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 6018 invoked by uid 500); 3 Sep 1998 17:22:19 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "03 Sep 1998 13:03:17 -0400" Original-Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.66/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16671 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16671 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > "RA" == Russ Allbery 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)