[Mailman-Developers] CTE "base64" due to UTF-8?

[J C Lawrence]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:59:16 -0400 
J C Lawrence <J> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:05:15 +0100 Nigel Metheringham
> <Nigel.Metheringham at dev.intechnology.co.uk> wrote:

>> If you do have an 8 bit message, and are trying to send to a non 8
>> bit recipient MTA, and will not transcode, you then have a problem.
>> You can then either just send it (sod you, take this anyway) or
>> bounce it.

> Which is particularly pernicious in the case of list servers.  Given
> enough 8bit-bouncing MTAs a single post can unsubscribe a poster.

Err, rephrasing so as to actually be correct:

  Which is particularly pernicious in the cast of list servers.  Given
  an 8bit bouncing MTA upstream of a member (perhaps as a secondary MX)
  the member can easily find himself unsubscribed without notice.

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J C Lawrence
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