Subject: 8BIT or QUOTED-PRINTABLE in Pine Usenet News articles

From: Jacob Palme <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 14:01:06 +0100 (MET)

When I write articles to Usenet News, using Pine set on the ISO 8859-1
character set, then PINE uses the Quoted-Printable encoding. Very
few newsreaders can read Quoted-Printable, so this makes my articles
very difficult to read if they contain many characters with the 8th
bit set.

Would it not be better to use the 8BIT encoding when Pine sends
messages to Usenet News. I believe that the NNTP protocol can
handle 8-bit characters, so there is no need to encode such
characters in the ugly Quoted-Printable format in articles sent
to network news!

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