From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 10:13:06 CDT
In <ylfzwftfzz.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>I think it should be possible to do 7-bit encodings of every header for
>mail compatibility, and it may make sense to require this for postings to
>moderated groups, or at least have the server check for characters in
>ranges mangled by mail.
Yes, that is the position we are at, more or less. It is up to the guy who
implements the injector to decide whether to encapsulate, or whether to
encode everything regardless, or to leave things alone where he knows that
it will get through the mail transport intact (e.g. by looking for
characters in 0x80-9f as you suggest, and by not bothering in the case of
headers within deeply nested MIME multiparts).
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