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Re: [ietf-smtp] Quoted-Printable-8bit

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Tue, 30 March 2021 15:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] Quoted-Printable-8bit
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>> The fact that nothing like quoted-unprintable has ever gotten any traction
>> tells me that even the overhead of base64 vs 8BITMIME isn't something people
>> care about.
> On this we agree. We thought the need to avoid the overhead in voicemail
> messages would be sufficient to get BINARYMIME deployed. We were wrong.


This ought to be a lesson about assumed incentives, versus checking for 
actual incentives.  We aren't very good at learning that lesson.

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Dave Crocker
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