ietf-nntp Mail from Maurizio Codogno <mau@beatles.cselt.it: Re: NNTP and 16-bit charsets

[Stan O. Barber]

Mail from Maurizio Codogno:

> 
> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Based on other related discussions, I think that the sender needs to
> > assume:
> > - NUL is unsafe;
> > - CR and LF may only appear in CRLF pairs;
> > - any other octet value will survive transmission unchanged;
> > - the space between CRLF pairs should be no more than 510 octets apart;
> 
> I thought limit was 998 (1000-2)....
> 
> > As Andrew (I think) pointed out, it is possible to pervert quoted-printable
> > to handle this. That is, all octets are transmitted unchanged except NUL,
> > CR, LF, and =, which are converted to =00, =0D, etc.) and CRLF pairs are
> > added as necessary. Dots can also be encoded to avoid the need for
> > stuffing.
> 
> but this is no more quoted-printable!
> 
> ciao, .mau.