[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Richard B. Gilbert]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.
> 

Things have improved somewhat since I started reading comp.os.vms. 
Years ago, ca. 1986-1988 Arne's surname was rendered, by VMS MAIL. as 
"Vajhxj".  I couldn't figure out any possible way of pronouncing it as 
rendered.  It was fifteen or twenty years before I saw it rendered more 
or less correctly; the "x" was VMS MAIL's attempt to render an accented 
character "O"!