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Re: [LUG] 8bit email was Re: email tag

 

On 27/02/13 20:15, Martijn Grooten wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Simon Waters wrote:
At the risk of wandering off on a tangent I saw a claim many years back that most 
MTAs handle 8bit fine, so all that 7bit escaping is just so much bloat. Anyone 
tested this?
I haven't. I don't think the advantage would be worth taking the risk
that something breaks, somewhere. And I actually quite like the fact
that emails are (or can be seen as) text files.

Martijn.

Is it worth saving a few bytes in a couple of e-mail message when people want 20MB adsl so they can download 4 600Mbyte films every day that they aren’t going to get round to watching?
Tom te tom te tom

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