Re: Can we back up a bit and ask some basic questions?An alternate model

Paul Hoffman / IMC writes:
> SMTP servers out there, some of which are in hardware and cannot be 
> upgraded.

As usual, specifics would be helpful: which SMTP servers you're talking
about, and what costs you're actually referring to when you say ``cannot
be upgraded.''

In particular, if these SMTP servers have any trouble handling 8-bit
data, I'd like to document that fact inside http://pi.cr.yp.to.

> forcing a change when it isn't needed is just plain bad design

The users are demanding a change. They're trying non-ASCII characters
and screaming in anguish at the results. You can hear them, can't you?

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago