Re: Backwards compatible

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From: Claus Färber (list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 18:40:00 CDT


Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> schrieb/wrote:
> Any encoding that produces output that only uses characters currently
> allowed in newsgroup names has the basic flaw that you can't
> distinguish between encoded names and existing unencoded names.

That is not a big problem. The encoding is desinged in such a way that
it's very unlikely that any newsgroup component will accidentally be
identical to an encoded newsgroup name.
Actually, it's so unlikely that this problem does virtually not exist.

Claus

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