Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 24-Sep-91 re: 8-bit SMTP and 8-bit 82..
Mark Crispin(_at_)cac(_dot_)washing (1745)
This is the typical sort of moronic comments that have come out of Prime
in the past several months. I hope that everyone sees these, and
remembers them the next time a Prime salesman comes around -- or when
one of these guys comes to you looking for a job.
Gee, Mark, don't be shy. Tell us how you *really* feel. :-)
For myself, I find the Prime position so alarming that I'm tempted to
lobby everyone to explicitly modify their MTA's to reject 8-bit data
even if they can already handle it, just to promote interoperability and
compliance.