From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 05:56:26 CDT
In <ylhewoql2j.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> 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.
Yes, but he doesn't want to change MIME. MIME already permits a certain
flexibility as to when and how to encode. Erland (and I) just want to
exercise that flexibility in a certain way for News, and Erland is just
suggesting that our practice might then slip into mail.
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