[ih] Meta: attachment policy (was Re: clever usc creation)

[Dave Crocker]

On 7/2/2026 9:19 PM, Carl Malamud via Internet-history wrote:
> Well, if we’re going to walk the walk and do Internet History the right way
> we should go totally 7-bit.  I vote that in addition to attachments, we ban
> Unicode.


For email:  Only if that history stops after about 22 years, when MIME 
was added to the mix.  (This ignores the ad hoc methods of encoding 
binary email content that were common prior to that.

FTP had binary from the start.

Telnet had it by at least 1983 (RFC 856)


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