Re: 8-bit transmission in NNTP

[troth@xxxxxxxxxxx (Rick Troth)]

> On the other hand, it is arguable that the ``all the world is UNIX'' attitude
> is an acceptable one for netnews and there really is no problem with ``just
> send 8 bits'' in netnews. 
 
        Being a full-time UNIX sysadmin with deep  multi-platform  roots, 
the  "just send 8 bits"  part of  "all the world is UNIX"  isn't the problem. 
The problem is line breaks and other things related to  "what's plain text?". 
 
	Consider the following suggestions: 
 
	    *	avoid imbedded control characters, including backspace 
 
	    *	treat any mixture of any number of TABs and SPACEs 
		as one instance of  "white space" 
 
	    *	consider trailing white space as fair game 
		for arbitrary appendage or deletion; 
		it can't be seen,  pretend it simply isn't there 
 
	    *	for the sake of those of us with XTs or VT100s, 
		keep lines shorter than 80 columns,  maybe <76 
 
> -- Mark --