Re: my 2 cents worth

Michael D'Errico <Mike@software.com> Tue, 07 June 1994 22:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: my 2 cents worth
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 15:28:05 -0700
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From: Michael D'Errico <Mike@software.com>
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Ian,

I'm terribly sorry!  I misinterpreted what you were trying to say, and
my response was unwarranted.  You meant that the link might not be TCP,
but a serial line or something similar, right?

With foot in mouth,

Michael D'Errico
mike@software.com

>>On Tue, 7 Jun 1994, Michael D'Errico wrote:
>>>
>>> I think that characters from Base64 are too restrictive.  Base64 exists
>>> because of the need to gateway messages between different mail systems,
>>> some of which have horrible constraints.  With POP, you have an 8-bit
>>> connection between client and server to work with.
>>
>>I think the premise that POP implies an 8 bit path between ends is a
>>little dangerous. In the absence of words to the contrary in the RFC I'd 
>>assume printable ascii and very selected controls.
>
>Your selective quoting suggests that I wanted to allow 8bit characters
>in the unique identifiers.  I made no such statement, and if you quoted
>my next sentence that would be clear.  I wrote, "I think that Steve
>Dorner's suggestion to limit the uid's to characters in the range 0x21
>to 0x7e (printable 7-bit ASCII except space) is a good one."