From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 03:10:12 CST
On 3/4/03 6:16 PM, Henry Spencer at <henry@spsystems.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>> Which is a long winded way of saying: moderation is IMO a potential
>>> problem, IMAP shouldn't be more than a *minor* consideration.
>>
>> I believe that this statement is tatamount to throwing away a large chunk
>> of Usenet's future...
>
> I believe JBM's point is not that IMAP is a minor consideration, but that
> IMAP's problems with 8-bit data are a minor consideration, because such
> data is widespread enough on Usenet already that if IMAP is going to play
> in the news world at all, it's going to have to learn how to handle 8-bit
> data, and soon, no matter what we do. No matter how draconian we get
> about encodings etc., IMAP *will* be confronted with such data... so there
> is no point in us getting draconian to try to save IMAP from this trauma.
Stripped of my anger/frustration with Lilly, that's fairly close to what I
meant.
-- J.B. Moreno