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Re: Character-set header (was Re: Minutes of the Atlanta 822ext meeting)

1991-09-11 15:54:42
Craig Everhart writes:

What do folks feel about making it mandatory for all 8-to-7 gateways to
know all legitimate encodings?  How burdensome is this?

It's not very burdensome.  The gateway needs only two encoders and the
tables are small for each.  It's a lot more burdensome to have to determine
the proper encoding on the fly.  I think John's suggestion of Content-KHFO:
really simplifies things.  The proper encoding, in the eyes of the sender's
mail agent, is unequivocal.

Jim