From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Thu Jan 23 2003 - 10:50:29 CST
Charles Lindsey wrote:
>>http://www.landfield.com/usefor/2002/Jan/0053.html
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>>You can't just ignore software that does not work and declare that it
>>"seems to works rather well".
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>We are concerned only about failures of raw UTF-8 in the transport system.
>Our draft has always made it clear that end users who are concerned enough
>to see UTF-8 characters displayed correctly will need to upgrade their
>user agents.
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>The message you refer to indicated NO failure in the transport system.
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Incorrrect. It specifically mentions sendmail. It does not mention
IMAP, which
has specific features for news and which is compliant with RFC 1036. Of
course
IMAP is a protocol, not software per se.