MAYBE (yes?) this topics be moved over to IBMTCP-L ? > From: Michael Wagner +49 228 303 245 <WAGNER@DBNGMD21> > > On mail ENTERING the 80 character environment, this layer is > > added, and on mail exiting the 80 character environment, this > > layer is removed. > > That sounds reasonable. As long as people remember that, "that's > not 822 running in there" Right, an ENCODED RFC822, but encoded in such a way that it CAN look almost like RFC822. A rather THIN wrapper. > If the 80 character environment didn't seem like it was busy > taking over the rest of the network, I wouldn't care much. But > much BITNET software only implements an 80 characters subset, even > when it isn't necessary. I get mail as punch files all the time, > even though our software has been updated in the last 10 years, > and so, we don't need to be pandered to in such a way. How would you like your mail? Print? That's still limited to 132 or 150. How about disk dump? netdata? card dump? pick your poison and rewrite MAILER. BTW, I'll flame a choice of disk dump.