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From: richl@tektools.UUCP (Rick Lindsley)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Reading other peoples' mail
Message-ID: <1049@tektools.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-May-86 01:15:58 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 18 01:15:58 1986
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Reply-To: richl@tektools.UUCP (Rick Lindsley)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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One should never count on full 8 bit transmission for mail. If any sites
use SMTP to transfer their mail it will fail. Mail is not designed for
binary transfer; it is designed for textual transfer. The fact that uucp
*may* be used to transfer mail may lull you into thinking you can count on
full 8 bit transmission, but you can't.

Rick Lindsley
Postmaster@tektronix