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From: David Kaye on 24 Feb 2010 14:48 "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: > >No, Usenet is n't an ASCII system. You're wrong. Usenet is a 7-bit ASCII system. Now, there is a fudge called UUENCODE designed to make 8-bit look like 7-bit so it will pass over the 7-bit Usenet system, but the traffic is still 7-bit ASCII. That means NO character codes greater than 127. Here's the wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet Here's SPECIFIC information about how names are supposed to be transmitted over Usenet from RFC 1036, one of the Usenet design standards: "Full names may contain any printing ASCII characters from space through tilde, except that they may not contain "(" (left parenthesis), ")" (right parenthesis), "<" (left angle bracket), or ">" (right angle bracket). Additional restrictions may be placed on full names by the mail standard, in particular, the characters "," (comma), ":" (colon), "@" (at), "!" (bang), "/" (slash), "=" (equal), and ";" (semicolon) are inadvisable in full names." Read more: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1036.html#ixzz0gU6PBCSj
From: David H. Lipman on 24 Feb 2010 16:15 From: "David Kaye" <sfdavidkaye2(a)yahoo.com> | "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: >>No, Usenet is n't an ASCII system. | You're wrong. Usenet is a 7-bit ASCII system. Now, there is a fudge called | UUENCODE designed to make 8-bit look like 7-bit so it will pass over the 7-bit | Usenet system, but the traffic is still 7-bit ASCII. That means NO character | codes greater than 127. | Here's the wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet | Here's SPECIFIC information about how names are supposed to be transmitted | over Usenet from RFC 1036, one of the Usenet design standards: | "Full names may contain any printing ASCII characters from space through | tilde, except that they may not contain "(" (left parenthesis), ")" (right | parenthesis), "<" (left angle bracket), or ">" (right angle bracket). | Additional restrictions may be placed on full names by the mail standard, in | particular, the characters "," (comma), ":" (colon), "@" (at), "!" (bang), "/" | (slash), "=" (equal), and ";" (semicolon) are inadvisable in full names." | Read more: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1036.html#ixzz0gU6PBCSj Your problem... X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.01 it fails to interpret strings like... =?windows-1256?B?5iBFNzIg4+Qg5eTHIOPMx+TH?= and thus you think it is giberish and NON-ASCII. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: David Kaye on 24 Feb 2010 17:23 "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: >Your problem... > >X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.01 This is NOT MY PROBLEM. My News Xpress reader fully complies with the RFC which governs Usenet. It's the problem of people who are using non-ASCII and flaky non-complying software. Usenet wouldn't exist and certainly the Internet wouldn't exist if it didn't have STANDARDS. Usenet has a standard, established back in 1987. Usenet's standard works.
From: David H. Lipman on 24 Feb 2010 17:29
From: "David Kaye" <sfdavidkaye2(a)yahoo.com> | "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: >>Your problem... >>X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.01 | This is NOT MY PROBLEM. My News Xpress reader fully complies with the RFC | which governs Usenet. It's the problem of people who are using non-ASCII and | flaky non-complying software. Usenet wouldn't exist and certainly the | Internet wouldn't exist if it didn't have STANDARDS. Usenet has a standard, | established back in 1987. Usenet's standard works. The messages are in FULL COMPLIANCE. Your news reader is failing to intepret these Country/Language dependent ASCII codes. I have no problem viewing them in Outlook Express (except in the subject line) and in Windows Mail. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |