Re: 7/8-bit conversion vs. bouncing

On Tue, 2 Jul 91 22:04:46 EDT, Rayan Zachariassen wrote:
> The way I read the winds, people are starting to converge on a scheme where
> the MTA must understand the internal semantics of message bodies and at a
> 7/8-bit boundary the MTA must do the translation of the message body.
> If this impression is wrong, please correct me.
There is an excellent way you can keep from having the MTA understand the
internal semantics of message bodies:

Implement a 7-bit MTA.  Don't implement an 8-bit MTA.