From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13482 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason L Tibbitts III Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mule-begot problems Date: 06 Jan 1998 17:36:27 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199801062012.VAA31638@esemetz.ese-metz.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.100) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152841 9493 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:27:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:27:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04166 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 15:41:22 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA14998 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:39:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAH10918; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:39:51 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 06 Jan 1998 17:36:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA10905 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:36:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 11718 invoked by uid 504); 6 Jan 1998 23:36:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11715 invoked from network); 6 Jan 1998 23:36:20 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (tibbs@129.7.3.5) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 1998 23:36:20 -0000 Original-Received: (from tibbs@localhost) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA10900; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:36:27 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of 06 Jan 1998 15:16:32 -0500 Original-Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.46/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13482 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13482 >>>>> "Rat" == Stainless Steel Rat writes: Rat> Because the MIME specifications say it should, because there are a lot Rat> of MTAs out there that are not "8-bit clean". And if my delivery agent recodes to 8-bit before dropping it in my mail spool? Rat> That is why all of the RFC 822 extensions that address 8-bit data Rat> specify that it should be encoded into a 7-bit format before Rat> transmission. But I don't recall anything that says the mangling cannot be undone upon receipt. There are legitimate ways that 8-bit data can end up in a spool without being sent over the network as 8-bit data. - J<