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- From: berger@imag.fr (Gilles BERGER SABBATEL)
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- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:48:17 GMT
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- avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
-
- >> Don't take them out of the spec: you may want them later,and a standard
- >>way of doing them is desirable.
-
- >Nobody calls to change SMTP commands. All we need is to get rid of the
- >7-bit restriction.
-
- Which restriction? On SunOs 4.1.2, sendmail transmits 8 bits chars
- without problem, and it do use SMTP. Obviously, if you send messages to
- 7 bits hosts, the 8th bit will be lost (which give funny chars...), but
- there should not be other problem, unless the software is bugged.
-
- Anyway, the problem is no longer that it is difficult to use 8 bits
- chars. We need them, and we will use them. It is no longer acceptable
- in current computer technology to be unable to write one's own language
- without spelling mistakes! This is simply anachronistic.
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