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Re: UTF-8 over RFC 2047 (Re: Call for Usefor to recharter)

2003-01-20 05:12:24

In <20030117170711(_dot_)4f465b98(_dot_)moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> 
Keith Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:

For better or worse, usenet decided long ago to have a more restrictive
syntax than that of email.  Gateways have been dealing with this for a
long time.  It's occasionally annoying because a message that is gatewayed
from email to news and back suffers information loss from the gateway.
But that decision was made long ago.  Even if you relax the format of news
articles existing news readers will still not know how to parse them.  So
for practical purposes you need to continue adhering to those restrictions
for a while.

Indeed so. In Usefor, most of those things are MUST accept, SHOULD NOT
generate yet.

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