From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47497 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: posting-charset abolition Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:38:57 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group 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 1036068026 4265 80.91.224.249 (31 Oct 2002 12:40:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:40:26 +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 187Ecb-00016e-00 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:40:25 +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 187Ebk-0007dB-00; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:39:32 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:40:18 -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 GAA17831 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:40:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 11280 invoked by alias); 31 Oct 2002 12:39:11 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11275 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2002 12:39:11 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO mars.web-hosting.com) (207.228.244.150) by gnus.org with SMTP; 31 Oct 2002 12:39:11 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([207.228.245.242]) by mars.web-hosting.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9VCd5h01445 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:39:05 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) XEmacs/21.4 (Military Intelligence (RC3), sparc-sun-solaris2.6) X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( Cancel-Lock: sha1:L/SVGhzxxvh1u5xRsG5qCHtyBWk= X-Hashcash: 021031:ding@gnus.org:c630f298630a9ea5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47497 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47497 >>>>> In >>>>> Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, yamaoka@jpl.org wrote: >> Gnus always puts the ``Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'' header > 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. You are right. Putting CTE:8 to 7-bit articles is absolutely harmless. However, it is closely reminded of vicious MUAs rampant all over the world. Possibly they became better than ancient times, though. (In old days, Japanese mails were in a wretched condition.) Although this is no more than a personal matter of taste, it is worthwhile to delete an excessive header, isn't it? rfc1521.txt: ..."Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT" is assumed if the Content-Transfer-Encoding header field is not present. So, I want to do that if it is not a burden on Gnus. -- Katsumi Yamaoka