I understand that, but UTF-8 is compatible with US-ASCII. Thus is won't destroy the system, and all users can read the content. The only problem is that for any CJK content, they'll have to view this in BBEdit, which supports UTF-8 since the early days...
However, I do not intend to send CJK, so for all intents and purposes, UTF-8, will be the same as US-ASCII. The problem is my mail agent defaults to a paticular encoding. This allows me to read email from a variety of sources and send mail. However, for this list I have to reconfigure my mail agent. This sucks. UTF-8, does is harmless for the listserv, but yet is a major inconvience for the clients. ciao, Joaquin > -----Original Message----- > From: Rocketeer List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Dan Knight > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 7:58 AM > To: Rocketeer List > Subject: Re: Let's play nice > > > macnerd writes: > > >This is a plea to the administrators on this list. > Apparently there is a > >ban from accepting ASCII compatible encoding of UTF-8. > AAAAAHHHH!!!!! > > > >I received the following message: > >---------------------------------------------------------- > > Failed to deliver to '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' > > LIST module(list rocketeer) reports: > > Your message cannot be posted. > > It is composed using the 'utf-8' character set, > > and this list accepts ISO-8859-1 only > >---------------------------------------------------------- > > > >Do people on this list have something against multi-lingual > mail users? I > >have to hardwire my mail user agent to send out ASCII or > ISO-8859-1, but > >then if I want to send C-J-K (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) > email out to my > >friends, I have to hard-wire my mail agent again. This is > SO FRUSTRATING. > > > >I honestly hope that contribute to this group, but if this > filter is not > >removed, then I am going to have to leave. I really don't > want to, but I > >don't want to reconfigure my mail application to send mail > to this list. > > This list, like all Low End Mac email lists, is designed for maximum > compatibility with email clients around the world. It > supports plain text > ASCII and nothing else to accomplish this goal. > > We have found that some non-ASCII emails can crash certain > email clients. > This is another reason we have the filter set to accept only Latin-1, > Western European ISO, ISO-8859-1, ASCII, etc. postings. > > Our current list software allows us to either select a single > standard > for text or allow everything. Allowing everything creates > problems, so we > adopted the oldest standard on the Internet for maximum usability. > > > Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. > <http://cobwebpublishing.com> <http://lowendmac.com> <http://lowendpc.com> <http://digital-views.com> <http://digigraphica.com> <http://reformed.net> In a world without walls or fences, who needs windows or gates? -- Rocketeer is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Save on Mac software -- Shop Software Outlet.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/software.outlet.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Rocketeer list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/rocketeer.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/rocketeer%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com> -- Rocketeer is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Save on Mac software -- Shop Software Outlet.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/software.outlet.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Rocketeer list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/rocketeer.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/rocketeer%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
