From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47496 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: posting-charset abolition Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:34:25 -0500 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036063910 26004 80.91.224.249 (31 Oct 2002 11:31:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:31:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 187DYC-0006l7-00 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:31:48 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 187DXF-0007TQ-00; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 05:30:50 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 31 Oct 2002 05:31:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA17448 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 05:31:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 9699 invoked by alias); 31 Oct 2002 11:30:26 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9694 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2002 11:30:26 -0000 Original-Received: from ns1.beld.net (208.229.215.81) by gnus.org with SMTP; 31 Oct 2002 11:30:26 -0000 Original-Received: from heechee.beld.net (dhcp-0-50-8b-df-51-5e.cpe.beld.net [65.202.179.67]) by ns1.beld.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C4A53B949 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:30:24 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:15:56 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47496 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47496 On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, yamaoka@jpl.org wrote: > Gnus always puts the ``Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'' header > into news articles to be sent by default. Since Japanese news > articles use the iso-2022-jp charset normally, putting CTE: 8bit > is nonsense (iso-2022-jp never uses 8-bit data). Forgive my ignorance, but I don't understand why CTE: 8bit needs to be removed for 7bit encodings. Does the 7bit CTE save bits or processing time when the message is delivered (my understanding is that this used to be the case long ago, but today very few active MTAs use 7bit)? Does the 8bit CTE somehow distort any of the current 7bit encodings? If the answer to both questions is no, maybe it's best to leave the CTE at 8bit. Ted