From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 22:32:01 CST
On 3/5/03 5:16 PM, Russ Allbery at <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Terje Bless <link@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Would I then be correct in quoting you as saying that 15% of the Netnews
>> community should be ignored in favour of compatibility with email?
>
> That 15% is not using UTF-8.
>
> Both solutions ignore (read: do not standardize the current practices of)
> that 15%. No one is proposing making that 15% happy, including you. So
> this is a straw man.
It's a lot closer to their current practice than 2047 is, and I'm convinced
that it will not make them /unhappy/.
-- J.B. Moreno