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Re: NULL

1994-10-18 07:37:27
At 5:14 PM 10/17/94, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
I have to say my views are very close to Keith's.  I also know that
Mark Crispin has similar views on this subject.

And I'll join the party.

7bit should be defined as 1-127, 8bit as 1-255, and NUL should be
prohibited in headers.

Yes.

In any case, implementers would be well advised to label bodies which
contain NUL characters as "binary".

Yes again.  Or to encode them in base64 or QP, and hence avoid the problem.

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