Re: pwned

From: Jim <null@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:07:26 +0000

In article <ajo8u5-1qi.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Eddie <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's all a bit moot anyway; isn't nntp meant to be ASCII only,
strictly speaking?

You mean 7-bit ASCII.

I do indeed; I didn't think I needed to be that pedantic.

<g>

Which is why things like pound symbols and accents get cocked up,
because different newsreaders try and do different things to try and
encode them.

Aren't the Content-* headers part of the NNTP standard now?

Not really. They never did revise NNTP properly after about 1987, so
officially we're stuck without any of the MIME extensions.

You'll note my posting software doesn't emit a Content-Type header...

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