On Jun 28, 10:28pm, Keld J|rn Simonsen wrote:
I have become convinced, through silence and avoidance of reading all
this XXXX effluvia, that it is hopeless to deal with the 8-7 encoding
anywhere but at the original UA posting point. PERIOD. FULL STOP.
OK, no problem with that one.... it is where I started from.
% Bouncing email because it is crossing an 8/7 bit boundary is
% a SHOW STOPPER to me. And to many other Europeans.
% Try to figure out my trouble telling my users that the mail
% was bounced because of some site not being able to accept
% what they sent, (which was a simple 8-bit mail).
It is still better than the existing scheme and I agree firmly that
bouncing-is-better because there is vast experience across the net
that a lot of sites assert that they are gateways when they are not
and then proceed to mangle thoroughly the
One cannot call 8-bit mail "simple" in the existing Internet because
it flatly is not supported. We have to be sure to implement a scheme
that won't mangle mail on the fly (such mangling surely will result if
hosts are widely permitted to perform 7/8-bit conversions on the fly).
Ran
randall(_at_)Virginia(_dot_)EDU