On 2 February 2001, Thomas Roessler <roesslerdoes-not-exist.org> wrote:
> On 2001-02-02 01:41:29 +0200, Liviu Daia wrote:
>
> > : 6.2. Content-Transfer-Encodings Semantics
> > [...]
> > : The proper Content-Transfer-Encoding label must always be used.
> > : Labelling unencoded data containing 8bit characters as "7bit" is
> > : not allowed, nor is labelling unencoded non-line-oriented data as
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > : anything other than "binary" allowed.
>
> > Any "8bit" attachment, if not re-encoded, would thus force the enclosing
> > message to "binary".

    s/would/may/

> How this? An "8bit" attachment will still be line-oriented, and would
> trigger "8bit" on the enclosing message - but not "binary".

    A GIF attachment is not necessarily line-oriented...

    Regards,

    Liviu Daia

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