Holger Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Paul Gorodyansky wrote:
> > Many Newsgroups and/or News gateways do NOT accept MIME-encoded
> > messages and even stricter with MIME in Subjects - as well as
> > many Web-based news services,
>
> This is nonsense. I know at least one newsserver that even sets MIME
> Headers if it's missing from a posting and if the posting contains 8-bit
> characters. A /proper/ MIME encoding is absolutely normal for news
> servers, how else do you want to define 8-bit characters in the body?
> How else should a strict news client know how to display a posting if
> there isn't a MIME declaration in the header?
Sorry, it was my fault - I was not clear enough - my question was
mainly about MIME encoding of the _Subject_ - surely, MIME-specified
encoding of the _body_ is essential and needed.
But having _Subject_ as
Subject: =?koi8-r?B?8NLP18XSy8E=?=
often cause problems:
1) Some News gateways (f.e. some Fido networks) do not understand
such MIME encoding of _Subject_
2) Some Web-based News services (as old Dejanews and I guess as
current Supernews) also are not ready to decode MIME in _Subject_.
>
> > In Outlook Express Mail and News setting are 2 separate forms so
> > I can set the usage of MIME in headers for Mail but forbid to do so
> > for News.
>
> Yes, Outlook Express is a horrible program. Absolutely horrible.
Agree :) I never use it, only Netscape, but this specific feature of separating
News and Mail settings looks very nice to me...
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Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/
