> Furthermore, the IETF specifications that allow 7-bit software should be > fixed as soon as possible. Do you disagree with this?
> Or do you want these bugs to continue to plague programmers in 10 years? > 20 years? 50 years? I'm having trouble understanding why we're still using these old protocols. Does a standardized transparent (in the "binary" sense of the word) mail protocol with built-in support for multi-part messages exist? Then why isn't it being implemented all over the place? It would make things a whole lot simpler: no UTF-8 or MIME encoding of international characters would be nessecary (use Unicode), binary attachments would take up significantly less space and Unicode IDNs could easily be supported. -- Thor Harald Johansen
