From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 20:13:56 CDT
Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> writes:
> 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.
It sounds like you want to change MIME. You're in the wrong working group
to do that. ietf-822@imc.org is two doors down on the left.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>