"Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra(_at_)stanford(_dot_)edu> writes:
Russ> Note that in each case some other encoding system besides
Russ> punycode could in theory be used. I don't believe the choice
Russ> of encoding changes the remainder of this analysis, however, so
Russ> punycode is left as a placeholder (and what seems to currently
Russ> be the most likely choice).
there is a specific reason to avoid punycode in my proposal (proposal
A), which is that it's not easily generated in a simple script; the
easiest way to upgrade several existing news software packages to
handle moderated non-ASCII groups is to wrap the mail-to-moderator
program in a script to do the necessary header changes. (This works
for INN, Diablo, my server, and at least some versions of DNews on
some platforms - basically any server which uses the common approach
of doing mail-to-moderator as an external program call.)
--
Andrew.