From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (brunner@nic-naa.net)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 15:32:20 CDT
> But the problem with that approach is that people will undoubtedly
> implement, and make work, *something*, but it will not be UTF-8. It will be
> "guess the charset", or "we use this code in this hierarchy". Which makes
> it very hard for big sites like Supernews who want to carry all the
> worldwide hierarchies, and makes it impossible for people who want to
> crosspost between those hierarchies (that may not be common in practice,
> but we do not want to preclude it).
Was there another goal, other than "carry all", or "crosspost arbitrarily",
for having news? I thought there was, but I could be mistaken.