[Mailman-Developers] CTE "base64" due to UTF-8?

[Nigel Metheringham]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 15:59, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:05:15 +0100 
> Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham at dev.intechnology.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > If you do have an 8 bit message, and are trying to send to a non 8 bit
> > recipient MTA, and will not transcode, you then have a problem.  You
> > can then either just send it (sod you, take this anyway) or bounce it.
> 
> Which is particularly pernicious in the case of list servers.  Given
> enough 8bit-bouncing MTAs a single post can unsubscribe a poster.

Maybe I'm not on top form today, but how does the *poster* get
unsubscribed in this situation?

I can see how recipients behind non-8-bit mail paths could get unsubbed
given a number of bounces, but the poster??

	Nigel.
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[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.co.uk ]
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