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

--On Sunday, 04 January, 2004 11:07 -0500 Keith Moore 
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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 apologies.

> 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.

Ok.  That is clear.  Now I at least understand, for the first 
time, where we disagree.

thanks,
    john