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- From: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- Subject: Encoding Mime articles before transmission ?
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 19:34:48 +0100
- Organization: INSA Informatique (Grasp), Lyon, France
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- Message-ID: <1i22s8INNca9@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
-
- What policy should a site adopt when forwarding Mime articles ?
- There are currently sites posting and sending articles in 8bit
- (Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit), which is fine on the 8-bit
- news systems. But I doubt that currently the sender would
- encode it in "quoted-printable" before transmitting to a 7-bit
- site.
-
- Is it reasonnable if a site performs such conversion before
- forwarding the article to its 7-bit neighbors (and possibly to
- many other sites behind).
-
- I offten see articles coded in "8bit" arriving here, for example
- in comp.sys.next groups. I can forward them as is to the other
- sites, regardless if they support 7 or 8 bit, or encode them in
- "quoted-printable", and at this point articles would get converted
- back only if the newsreader has the adequate software.
-
- This is not a technical question... software already exists
- (in beta :)) for converting articles within the news system.
-
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- Christophe Wolfhugel | Email: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
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