From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 21:10:50 CDT
On 7/29/02 1:06 PM, Jay Denebeim at <denebeim@deepthot.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Henry Spencer wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Jay Denebeim wrote:
>>>> We can't. It is completely outside our charter. If we submitted an RFC
>>>> to do so, IETF would reject it. We have to figure out ways to live with
>>>> it.
>>>
>>> Well, then you can't fix it. Don't try, doing so will make a mess.
>>
>> Unfortunately, we *do* have to figure out ways to live with it. We cannot
>> just ignore the issue, or assume it will magically go away.
>
> The thing is though that mail is going to have to fix the problem as well.
> Anything you do today to news will just make that bit more difficult.
> That's why I'm saying to fix mail first.
Only if mail doesn't decide upon raw UTF8 -- which is what they should do.
-- J.B. Moreno