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Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> Fri, 18 January 2019 07:15 UTC

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On Friday 18 January 2019 06:37:57 CET, Gene Hightower wrote:
> So: presumably transcoding from 8BITMIME to 7 bit has all the same
> problems, no?  But somehow 8BITMIME became common enough for everyone
> to just assume 8 bit transmission now.

It didn't have the same problems at the time when it became common.

Just-send-8 became common around 1990, 8BITMIME was formalised a few years 
later. Spam and signatures arrived on the scene later.

Arnt

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