| ▲ | Pinus 6 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
As far as I can remember, most mail servers were fairly sane about that sort of thing, even back in the 90’s when this stuff was introduced. However, there were always these more or less motivated fears about some server somewhere running on some ancient IBM hardware using EBCDIC encoding and truncating everything to 72 characters because its model of the world was based on punched cards. So standards were written to handle all those bizarre systems. And I am sure that there is someone on HN who actually used one of those servers... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | jcynix 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
EBCDIC wasn't the problem, this was (part of) the problem: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=execution-systsi... And BITNET … | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | tiborsaas 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Thanks, I really expected a tale from the 70's, but did not see punch cards coming :) | |||||||||||||||||
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