[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4c59d542$0$9253$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> The c cedilla would have easily been represented by the ISO Latin 1 c
> cedilla. But because NNTP standards were done in the USA who thoughht
> ASCII was 7 bits, transmission of 8 bit values is not in the standard,
> so instead of changing the standard to allow 8 but values, they decided
> to come up with this quoted printable contraption.

Can you quote the "NNTP standard" which mentions quoted-printable as a 
recommendation for 7-bit printable ASCII?

> It also allows microsoft to send paragraphs as one very long line that
> can be reflowed by the recicpient (by ending each physical line with an
> = sign which tells the client to join the next line).

Which doesn't encourage folks to format them properly in the first
place.