Re: UUCP, etc., and SMTP/822/MIME mail (was: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-hoffman-utf8headers-00.txt)

On Jan 4, 2004, at 8:13 AM, John C Klensin wrote:

> if affirmative responses rarely occur, that would be an in-the-field 
> demonstration of what I take to be Keith's key argument, i.e., that, 
> despite all of the interest in the engineering community and 
> discussion on this list, implementers and users really don't care and 
> sticking with ASCII, or other things encoded into ASCII, is quite 
> adequate.

well, that's NOT my key argument, and it's not even close to my key 
argument.

my key argument is that if you want to implement IMAAs, the lack of 
transparency in mail transport is the least of the problems, and trying 
to negotiate transparency in mail transport doesn't bring you closer to 
a solution to the IMAA problem or even closer to a desirable state in 
the long term. it's simply counterproductive.