Re: 8-bit transmission in NNTP

[Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>        - For a C-T: TEXT/PLAIN message in C-T-E: 8BIT form the defined
>          charset can be applied also for the headers UNLESS they use
>          RFC 1522 encoding to define othervice.

I don't think this is a good idea, because for those systems that do 
strip bits, doing so might convert an 8bit alphabetic character into
a 7bit "special" character...thus fouling the parser.  This would
certainly happen with news gatewayed to email.

Keith