From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com (Mikey)
Subject: Re: MIME autoconversion
25 Sep 1997 18:04:31 -0700
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To: dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

On Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:55:52 +0200 (METDST), you wrote:

>Hi Peter, you wrote:
>
>: This makes perfectly good sense to me - incoming sendmail converts QP
>: to 8bit - outgoing converts 8 bit to QP. Business as usual for an
>: 8-bit site on a 7-bit net...
>
>Obviously this makes no sense to me:
>- I receive directly from cygnus via SMTP over TCP which is 8bit clean.
>- I just checked yesterday that RFC2200 still lists MIME as draft/elective.
>- My mailer doesn't understand MIME but handles 8bit/latin1 just fine.
>  So why should I upgrade before MIME is promoted to standard/required?
>

Um because you want to be able to read all your mail?

>
>Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de)
>-
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