From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 18 1997 - 05:10:00 CDT
Brad Templeton <brad@clari.net> wrote:
>There is no need for autoresponders any more at all. They are my fault.
>Some 15 years ago I got tired of people posting to net.test to test their
>local install of news, so I suggested people put in autoresponders to
>get the message out that you shouldn't post there (and also it provided
>a handy test if you really knew what you were doing.)
On the contrary, autoresponders are quite useful.
I recently wanted to test how 8-bit clean the news and email transport
systems actually were (against the doomsayers who say that anything over 7
bits will surely get lost). So I posted an article to misc.test with some
'£' signs in it (that is pounds sterling, not pounds weight - if any of
you receive it as a '#' please let me know). No MIME headers. There were
'£' signs in both the body and the headers (the Subject line, actually).
I had replies from 4 autoresponders in UK, MA, PA, and CAN. All returned
the '£' signs correctly, both in the headers and the body. Not conclusive,
of course, but most encouraging.
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