Henning Hucke <h_hucke+news.reply@newsmail.aeon.icebear.org> wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> wrote:

>>[...]
>>>The point is: There are 8-bits in your message, Alpine will encode them
>>>somehow (meaning they will not be sent as 8-bit). That is the standard.

>>[...]
>>The quoted-printable encoding was a separate matter. Yes, there is a
>>quoted-printable encoding standard that alpine implements. Nevertheless,
>>unencoded text should be prefered over encoded text in an almost entirely
>>8-bit clean environment like Usenet.

>I beg your pardon! In newsgroups text should get uuencoded in preference
>to for instance quoted printable encoding?

You've whooshed me.

>Especially in newsgroups exactly this should be the case at all. They
>should stay as close to us ascii text as possible so that they are as
>readable as possible even if the raw article is presented to you.

>And I think this is what you'll read if you read all RFCs relevant for
>newsgroup articles.

8Bit Content Transfer Encoding is certainly allowed. Usenet wasn't
restricted to 7bit like SMTP but does retain the 1000 character line
length limit.

>>The issue of attachments is of greater concern than the issue of
>>quoted-printable.

>Here I'm totally with you.

Is the MIME-aware tools nag message language boilerplate from one of
the standards?

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