From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Sun Jul 08 2001 - 04:10:51 CDT
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> 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.
I let it suffice trying to keep the worst insanities out of news. Just
because MIME is there does not mean that we have to use every single
bit of it.
For instance, we have all reason to favour 8bit as much as possible.
This may make things more difficult for implementors, but it will make
things easier for the users.
Your snotty replies nonwithstanding.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se