From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS@netzone.com (Mikey)
Subject: Re: MIME autoconversion
25 Sep 1997 18:04:31 -0700
Message-ID: <342b00e5.5508356.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp.netzone.com>
References: <009BAD9F.66F6B040.24218@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Reply-To: jeffdbREMOVETHIS@netzone.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de, gnu-win32@cygnus.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@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
>-
>For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to
>"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".
>

(jeffdbREMOVETHIS@netzone.com)
delete REMOVETHIS from the above to reply
         Mikey
-
For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to
"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".