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- This conversation is just a trifle intimidating, but here goes...
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- I believe some good points are being made here, but not all which can be
- associated with a single 'technology', i.e. MIME or WAIS. I believe this is
- the natural product of trying to get 'mail' to be all things to all
- applications.
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- Mail as a transport for information versus mail as the characteristic of
- information is what I believe to be partly to blame. When I receive mail (the
- characteristic stuff), I may have little control over the content-type, and
- therefore may have to take what I get. On the other hand, when I am using mail
- (the transport stuff) to request information, I ought to be able to provide
- some insight into what I can handle on the receiving end. It would be nice to
- be able to tell the world what I would like (e.g. EPS, MIME or ASCII, please)
- before I know whether I will ever get mail from them, but this seems excessive
- using current technologies.
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- So as not to wear out my welcome, let me finish by saying that I believe there
- are solutions, but they will not be singular; there will be several pieces
- that inter-relate such that, when used together, provide what is needed. It
- will be much easier to deal with the issues separately, with an understanding
- of the inrer-relationship(s), than try and deal with them as one.
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- As for 'inflammatory hogwash', isn't that how they get pink pigs?
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