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Re: 8-bit transmission in NNTP

1994-09-15 09:33:17
       - For a C-T: TEXT/PLAIN message in C-T-E: 8BIT form the defined
         charset can be applied also for the headers UNLESS they use
         RFC 1522 encoding to define othervice.

I don't think this is a good idea, because for those systems that do 
strip bits, doing so might convert an 8bit alphabetic character into
a 7bit "special" character...thus fouling the parser.  This would
certainly happen with news gatewayed to email.

Keith

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