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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Encoding Mime articles before transmission ?
- Message-ID: <C095sA.GzF@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:38:33 GMT
- References: <1i22s8INNca9@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <1i22s8INNca9@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:
- >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.
-
- The sender shouldn't be using 8bit CTE unless he is sure that all sites
- reached by the article can cope properly with 8-bit encodings. All the
- relevant standards, at this time, specify 7-bit transmission, so no site
- is obliged to handle 8-bit stuff correctly except by prearrangement.
-
- >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).
-
- You *must not* forward articles using 8-bit encodings to neighbors who
- have not explicitly agreed to receive such articles. See above comment
- on standards. The legitimate actions are to convert the article or
- decline to forward it. Converting it sounds reasonable to me.
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