Brad Templeton wrote:
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:01:31PM -0500, Bruce Lilly wrote:
To name just one case; forwarding of old messages, either via the
infrequently used 822/2822 Resent- header fields, or by MIME
message/rfc-822 encapsulation, or by cut-and-paste.
Ok, so assume for a moment that while we can (someday) prohibit the
use of the older format on usenet, reading tools probably have to
be told that they must decode the older 7 bit format forever, in case
they need to read an old article. Forwarding is not an issue, as
tools can be told to map the old 7 bit encoding to the new one in that
case.
No, that's then not forwarding a message, it's sending a modified
copy of a message. The obvious case where that won't work is
where the original message in question is being sent as an example
of a message with certain header content.
A Usenet-specific example is the periodic posting of FAQs and similar
articles, some of which haven't changed in years.