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- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.194116.9569@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:41:16 GMT
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- In article <1ise90INN7qk@nigel.msen.com> emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
- >Would it not be simpler and more expedient to work on the wone
- >gateway that doesn't know how to handle MIME headers right, than
- >to hack up 100 MIME-ready clients to implement some nonstandard
- >options?
-
- I will say for the last time (applause) that this is not a problem with
- gateways, but with mail _domains_. Some domains simply don't allow for
- headers other than a selected few. By asking for those domains to use
- MIME headers, you are asking for the rework of hundreds of mail transports
- on dozens of different systems, some of them 'legacy' systems in which
- the relevant code is frozen.
-
- I will cease commenting on the use of MIME for non-mail applications, as
- obviously people just aren't interested. Roll on ODA and SGML.
-