On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:59:16 -0400, J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:05:15 +0100 Nigel Metheringham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you do have an 8 bit message, and are trying to send to a non 8 bit recipient MTA, and will not transcode, you then have a problem. You can then either just send it (sod you, take this anyway) or bounce it.
Which is particularly pernicious in the case of list servers. Given enough 8bit-bouncing MTAs a single post can unsubscribe a poster.
I suppose that is why best practices in this area is to transcode when you connect to something which is not 8-bit clean, but never otherwise.
Not doing it might of course be a good way to rid the net of a bit of obsolete software... sites which are not able to be 8-bit clean must be really rare these days. I suppose somebody still has a PDP-8 or something running, and it does have a certain historical interest, but most protocols in wide use today assume an 8-bit clean transmission path. You cannot use http on a 7-bit system, for instance.
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