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- From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein)
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- Subject: Re: NeXTMail on the Mac
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 18:21:40 GMT
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- Excerpts from internet.mmm-people: 28-Dec-92 NeXTMail on the Mac Mitch
- Silverman@ucbvax.B (1115)
-
- > If so, do the annotations conform to
- > MIME standards, or, more to the point, was the MIME standard
- > written to allow for NeXTMail transmission?
-
- One of the ways we achieved consensus in defining MIME was by making
- sure that we weren't standardizing on any existing format for which some
- vendor would have a substantial advantage. Thus MIME is not NeXTMail.
- However, it is not really very hard to take an existing multimedia mail
- program and retrofit it to read and write MIME instead of its native
- format -- I did it, for example, with the latest version of Andrew.
-
- You could also, in theory, encapsulate an entire Nextmail message by
- defining a MIME type for it (e.g. application/nextmail) but that would
- be a poor solution, in my view, because it wouldn't interoperate well.
- Much better would be for future versions of Nextmail software to
- understand both its own format and MIME, and to generate whichever the
- user prefers. -- Nathaniel
-