On Mon, 11 Dec 1995 13:07:48 -0500 Mark Hunnibell <[log in to unmask]> said: >Even if they *did* send them out as 8-bit characters, there are many >systems along the way in Internet that still strip 8-bit characters >completely from e-mail, so they would not get to everyone. Such systems are very rare in non English speaking countries. People did not wait for MIME to exchange mail in their own language; they've been doing this for a very long time, sending the data unencoded and making sure they selected software that could handle it. Eric