To: Mark Crispin <MRC(_at_)panda(_dot_)com(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu>
^^^^^^^^
Keith, methinks your mailer may have a problem.
On Mon, 12 Sep 1994 15:57:00 -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
NetNews is different because any article posted to a major newsgroup will
eventually reach most of the NetNews servers on the planet. Any dire
consequences of sending "8-bit" articles over NetNews are thus discovered
very quickly....and the software is fixed.
My experience is that netnews servers silently drop any messages which do not
conform to their expectations, with no indication of any failure.