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Re: [ietf-smtp] quoted-unprintable ?

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 21 March 2021 20:08 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] quoted-unprintable ?
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>> This seems totally obvious.  Has anyone proposed it before?
>
> Yes, on Usenet, and it looks like the authors also thought of using it on
> email as well.  It's called yEnc:
>
> http://www.yenc.org/
>
> I don't think there was ever an RFC, though.

I found a discussion on this very list in 2003 of gzip-8bit which was more 
or less gzip with yEnc escapes, and a draft that Ned wrote:

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/ietf-822/?gbt=1&index=VmGPBP83tzuzAzdKOwtckalMipE

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-freed-mime-newenc/

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John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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