From: ArkanoiD <ark@paranoid.convey.ru>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 08:10:04 -0800 (PST)
To: bgrosman@healey.com.au (Benjamin Grosman)
Subject: Re: Encryption/data-changing in russia
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961207002348.00874dcc@healey.com.au>
Message-ID: <199612061607.TAA17337@paranoid.convey.ru>
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nuqneH,
> 
> whilst on the subject of PGP in Russia, I encountered something very
> interesting. A friend of mine who is Russian, but lives out here, frequently
> corresponds with friends in Russia via email, and in the course of sending
> emai, they occasionally send an attachment. However, the attachment that
> _all_ his russian friends send, including the ones who use MIME capable
> email clients such as Eudora, always, _always_, uuencode files, and they say
> they can't do MIME. I am wondering if the encryption/data-changing laws in
> Russia are so strict as to disallow MIME encoding even, but still allows UU
> for some reason?
> 
> Any clues as to this?
> 

1) We do not care about computer laws. At all.
2) We just do not like mime UUENCODE is ok to send files,and we (at least i)
consider MIME almost useless and annoying - MIMEish sendmails often encode 
russian text (8th bit set) just because they think it's kosher. I don't think
so and there are still many people with MIME-unaware readers who get highly
annoyed when they see mime crap instead of plain text. BTW i've seen only one
REALLY mime-aware MUA,the Pine,others (incl elm) often work with national
codesets.. hmm.. i can' say incorrectly but when it forgets to decode header of 
message..

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