Russ Allbery wrote: > > Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I find it interesting, if not disturbing, that some members of the > > usenet community seem to think that mail messages and usenet articles > > are not the same thing. AFAICT, from reading the relevant standards, > > writing server code for SMTP/LMTP/IMAP/POP3/NNTP, and everyday use, mail > > messages and news articles both conform to RFC 2822 (RFC 1036 states as > > much). The only differences that I'm aware of are the following: > > > - usenet puts a greater restriction on the headers (although still being > > RFC 2822 compliant) > > Yes, although there are a variety of subtle things that fall into this > category that one has to be careful of. That's one of the difficulties
[...] > - National 8-bit character sets are in widespread use in Usenet message > headers, possibly more widespread than they are in (non-spam) mail > messages. Untagged 8-bit national character sets are widely used in [...] > - MIME never got very much uptake on Usenet for attachments. The binary > newsgroups are almost universally uuencode or, these days, yEnc. Base64 [...] OK. As I suspected there is nothing inherent in RFC [2]822 that makes it unsuitable for news. Any incompatibilities are purely the result of non-standardized stuff being implemented in news software. So, the claims that mail and news are not the same was either misleading and/or wishful thinking. -- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
