[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <37d50879-84f3-4a33-a4b7-f66c95b4dcf6 at i28g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, MetaEd <metaed at gmail.com> writes:
>On Aug 4, 2:56=A0pm, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
>wrote:
>> If your news-reader doesn't support [quoted-printable], it's *you* that h=
>ave 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.
>
>Sk=E5l!

Thank you voice of reason.

-- 
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG

All your spirit rack abuses, come to haunt you back by day.
All your Byzantine excuses, given time, given you away.