XPost: news.software.readers   
   From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
   In article <87r4iry86a.fsf@violet.siamics.net>,   
    Ivan Shmakov  wrote:   
      
   > 	Consider, e. g.:   
   >   
   > --cut: urn:ietf:rfc:5537 --   
   >    Transports for Netnews articles MUST treat news articles as   
   >    uninterpreted sequences of octets, excluding the values %d00 (which   
   >    may not occur in Netnews articles), %d13, and %d10 (which MUST only   
   >    appear in Netnews articles as a pair in that order and which,   
   >    together, denote a line separator).  [...]   
   > --cut: urn:ietf:rfc:5537 --   
      
   Those restrictions make it practically impossible to transmit raw binary   
   files without encoding. While a submission agent could scan the file to   
   see if it contains any of these bytes, and send it unencoded if not, I'd   
   find such an implementation very surprising.   
      
   --   
   Barry Margolin   
   Arlington, MA   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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