Re: SMTP and new 822 interworking

[David Robinson <DRB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You realize of course that the entire exercise of inventing and implementing
all the software to do 8-to-7-to-8 mailing is simply to "fix" the existing
8-bit mailers so that no one will have to "fix" the 7-bit mailers.  (When
said fix is usually removing 2 lines of code, one in receive and one in
transmit.)

I personally will volunteer to write a small C program which will a mailer,
figure out whether it copes properly with 8-bit, and if not, sends a mail
message to its postmaster reporting the deficiency.  I will even make it
public domain so we can all run  it!

The reason to go to 8-bit has nothing to do with efficiency.  It has to do
with getting the mail transport itself onto a common "universal" character
set.  Latin-1 at the least and maybe 10646...  I am tired of receiving
{s and ECMA-7 stuff and you must be tired of sending them.

Given the simplicity of the fix, if we ammend 821 to require 8-bit transfers,
we can all rapidly harrass the network gateways into cooperation real fast
and the rest will follow after they get tired of looking at covrdination
and other such 7-bit strips.

*whew*
David (:-)