Subject: Re: Please 8bit sending, no more Quoted-Printable !

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 20:23:59 -0400

On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Marc Herbert wrote:

> Why isn't there any option that would cancel
> the Quoted/Printable Encoding for ever ??
> 
> [...]
> 
> Please, replace the E-SMTP negociation option 
> by 8bits sending, just like 8 bits posting.
> Thank you

    Unfortunately, there is probably no way to make everyone happy in
this matter.  Email on the Internet is still only a 7-bit standard, and
some people want a way to have 8-bit characters transmitted.  Q-P was
one of the ways decided on technically.  Some people, such as yourself,
may dislike it very strongly, but other people, such as me, like it,
because I can display the correct 8-bit letters at my end, translating
them out of Q-P.  (I finally got Sven Guckes' one-line Perl script
working -- thanks, Sven.)  No matter what is done, someone will be
unhappy, and unfortunately, you are one of those who are unhappy about
the decision that was made on sending 8-bit characters.  Sorry.

Paul                             <[email-masked]..net>
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