From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 13:48:47 CDT
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> The effect on what the implementors have to read and understand is huge,
> as are the implications for being able to reuse code already written for
> mail.
And the point is that we don't want to them to routinely reuse the
MIME-ification stuff they have for mail. I've seen to many mail
messages QP:ing the universe, or even producing Base-64 out of an
ordinary text message. I don't want that crap in news.
The benefit for mail could be that what they rewrite for news will
slip into mail as well.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se