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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:01:23 -0500
- From: John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@CMU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan11.001838.13304@lut.ac.uk>
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- M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk ([*] M.T.Hamilton) writes:
- > This is a gross hack but it would be of practical benefit to those
- > people who are in the same position as Alasdair.
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- No, it will not be of benefit to such people, at least not in the long
- term. Such a kludge would do two things:
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- 1) Remove the incentive to get the broken gateways fixed. Once
- established, such an "interim" convention would never go away.
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- 2) Encourage people to generate messages of this form. Such messages
- are not in MIME format and will not be interpreted by many correct
- MIME implementations.
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