From: Stephane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@nic.fr)
Date: Wed May 18 2005 - 03:12:22 CDT
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:29:11PM +0200,
Hans Aberg <haberg@math.su.se> wrote
a message of 18 lines which said:
> Therefore, people switched to MIME, which encodes 8-bit data into
> 7-bit data. That situation seem to remain.
Certainly not. I send all my email in 8-bits (not encoded) and, at
least when email stays in France, there is no problem.
> One should find a method to kill of any mail servers that still
> zeroes out the 8'th bit.
They are certainly a very small minority. But mail servers are only a
part of the problem, you also have the broken anti-virus programs, the
mail clients, the mail robots...
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