On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:27:46AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> What would be the downside of just encoding any non-printable character? 
> Like URL-encoding, or backslash-escaping.

The goal of the control chars is to use a sequence that won't ever appear
in a real message.

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