In <3E171972(_dot_)2060801(_at_)alex(_dot_)blilly(_dot_)com> Bruce Lilly
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> writes:
If you could wave a magic wand and make sendmail completely 8-bit
transparent, there would still be network and character set issues
that would prevent use of certain characters (many of them within
the US-ASCII set) without encoding.
Unlike Usenet, mail is vital to many businesses and individuals. One
cannot simply "change the RFC, then complain" when things stop
working en masse.
And there you have hit the nail on the head. Mail is vital to many
businesses and individuals.
Usenet is not.
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