Re: [tlug] Email encoding for DoCoMo and AU

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

steven smith writes:
 > Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

 > > I was struck by how much effort went into optimizing the number of
 > > bits in these protocols back then, eg that was one rationale for UTF-7
 > > (RFC-1642).
 > > 

 > Ah -- do you remember when a 300 baud connection was really 
 > fast :)

No, I never did *that* much dope.  I do remember when there were
slower connections on the console, though. :-)