Linux-Hams archive - July 1998: Re: FW: lnxforward problems solved

Re: FW: lnxforward problems solved

Tomi Manninen (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:44:15 +0300 (EETDST)


On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Mike Bilow wrote:

> =M> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_M=F8rch?= <aztlpfbn@roskapostia.tunk.net>
> =M> To: "'yrsjzblf@borlange.se'"
> =M> <xptqfuu@kerailya.tunkki.fi>
>
> =M> Once again, a MS Exchange problem (or is the problem aprox.
> =M> 50cm from the screen/keyboard???)
>
> Have a look at what I see when you post Danish characters here. My mail system
> cannot be 8-bit clean, since this account is connected via UUCP.
>
> I'm not complaining -- Danish would be wasted on me even if it was in the
> proper character set -- but you might find it interesting to know what you look
> like down here in the 7-bit world.

Smart MTA's do the conversions transparently and hide all this from the
users. And even if they don't, a good MUA should save you from that
garbage. Heck, even MSmail seems to handle MIME. Except the header stuff,
but that is I believe part of MIME 2...

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