Answering msg from Alexander Watson Law to Bob Lawrence,
on Sunday March 17 1996 at 00:16

 AWL> I'll see if I can find all the MIME rfcs, it is perfectly possible
 AWL> over Fido, but the Ghods would scream about bandwidth.

 AWL> UU is good enough for the odd GIF/JPG, diagrams need a better format
 AWL> (HPGL based perhaps?) that is reasonably tight and transmittable..

 AWL> Hmmm... Does anyone know which of the normal ASCII characters have
 AWL> problems? I know things like UU use a restricted subset to satisfy
 AWL> *everyone* but I would expect Fido to be more lenient, allowing pretty
 AWL> much everything between 0x20 and 0x7E which gives a better range than
 AWL> just (say) 64 characters...

The fidonet transport may be reasonably consistent (everything between 0x20
and 0xFF bar a couple of characters), but it's what is done when it's
exported or imported (or even when originally created) that is the problem.
Even if characters are passed through, there is no guarantee that they will
not be reformatted . . .

Cheers.

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