[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

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On Aug 4, 2:56 pm, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> If your news-reader doesn't support [quoted-printable], it's *you* that have a problem. Don't make it into everybody elses problem.

The Usenet protocol standard limits messages to 7 bit ASCII and does
not permit MIME headers. If you violate the protocol standard, that is
an experimental, unsupported use. You, not the network or the
recipient, are responsible if your message is not received properly,
or if it interferes with other messages.

I know this is a ridiculous state of affairs. 7 bit ASCII is
inadequate for many newsgroups, including comp.os.vms. VMS itself
supports more than 7 bit ASCII. Therefore the protocol standard does
not support posting some working code or output from VMS systems. I do
not forget that Mr. S:oderholm and others cannot even have their names
spelled right. And I know some individual newsgroup communities have,
by mutual agreement, adopted quoted-printable as an extension to the
protocol. The standard is behind the times.

Nevertheless, it is undeniable that the recipient is not the one with
the problem.

Skål!