Re: The current status of IETF drafts concerning bare linefeeds

[Pavel Kankovsky]

On Fri, 19 May 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:

> The problem with bare linefeeds is simple: their interpretation
> is ambiguous on a Unix machine.... Because some do [send them],
> qmail rejects them.

The interpretation of 8-bit characters with code >= 128 is even more
ambiguous (at least unless the charset is specified with MIME headers)
but qmail accepts these characters (as well as bare CRs)...because it can
transport them transparently.

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