[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

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!

Right.  A better solution would be just to post 8-bit stuff and have the 
recipient assume the proper character set.