Re: if you really want utf-8 headers...

> At 01:34 04/01/01 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
> 
> >Universal adoption of IMAAs is anything but assured.  The largest age
> >
> >group of the world population is fairly young (say, less than 21
> >years old) .  Many of these people have grown up with cheap travel
> >and good communications, and an international popular culture.   They
> >are used to dealing with people from other countries, and in multiple
> >languages. Many of these people may find that  IMAAs don't benefit
> >them so much and that it's easier to get all email at an ASCII
> >address (or for that matter at an E164 number using ENUM) than it is
> >to deal with IMAAs.
> 
> There are definitely a lot of young people who travel cheaply.
> But there are also a lot of people who can't afford to travel,
> but who still might be able to use a computer at some public
> place. And while we can't do anything to make travel cheaper,
> we can work on making computers easier to use, for everybody.

Indeed, and seen at that level, it's a laudible goal.  The question is
whether it's worth it to upgrade the entire email infrastructure in
order to provide the specific feature of IMAs, when those IMAs might not
be widely used.  Especially given that
a) we can provide the same service without such an expensive upgrade, and
probably without nearly so much disruption, or
b) we could use the expensive upgrade to drastically improve email 
service in many other ways than just to provide IMAs.