Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 12:38:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de, tg@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/mimepp - Imported sources Message-ID: <199707081038.MAA16914@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu's message of Tue, 8 Jul 1997 01:58:11 -0700 (PDT) References: <87n2nyylkz.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> <199707080858.BAA06639@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> > * Looks to me like a library for people who want to write, say, a > * replacement for metamail, so I think `devel' is correct. Maybe I > * should add a link to `mail'. > > Um, MIME is not any more "mail" than, say, uucp is. You can use MIME > with news, right? No, though many people belive so, and create no end of trouble for everybody else. Especially Quoted Unreadable is not popular. Content-types used to mark character sets is tolerated and within the slack given in RFC1036. Inofficially, news is considered to be 8-bit clean, and the sentence in RFC822 that talk about 7-bits only being allowed in mail is routinely ignored. Eivind, who see continual flame wars on this topic in several parts of Usenet (though not in Big-8)
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