Pavel Kankovsky writes:
> On 19 May 2000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> > allow non-MIME 8-bit mail, for example, even though the relevant RFCs
> (*) If yes, what extra functionality was provided? (Apparently, it was not
> an ability to transfer non-English plaintexts because you do not know how
> to interpret bytes you receive without MIME (or MIME-like) metadata.)
Interpreting, and encoding are two different things. You're talking
about interpretation of a bytestream, and Dan is talking about the
encoding. In particular, he's dissing Content-Transfer-Encoding:
quoted-unreadable.
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