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From: mcmahon@tgv.com (John McMahon)
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Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????.
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Date: 6 Aug 90 00:39:00 GMT
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In article <3863a@braaten.doit.sub.org>, ed@braaten.doit.sub.org (Ed Braaten) writes...
>>My proposal would be RFC-1154-style, because it also allows one message to
>>contain encodings in different parts and could therefore also be used to
>>automaticaly convert different parts of a message in 7 bit groups. For
>>example, a message containing a uuencoded file preceded by some explanation
>>in ASCII and a signature at the bottom, could have a header such as:
> 
>>    Encoding: 10 text, 1045 uuencode, 5 text

My understanding is that an RFC is in the works for "non-textual tranmission of
data via E-mail".  I suspect this could be easily expanded to include USENET
NEWS.

Watch the NIC for announcements of new RFCs...

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