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- From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- References: <1993Jan12.191444.19513@twg.com>
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- In-Reply-To: "David Herron"'s message of Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:20:02 GMT
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:47:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.191444.19513@twg.com> "David Herron"
- <david@twg.com> writes:
-
- MIME could be a file structuring thing as you're suggesting. It's
- was designed with mail systems in mind but I can't think of many
- things which are unique to them. The most obvious is encoding
- anything not 7-bit clean.
-
- But why is MIME *uniquely* suited to this purpose?
-
- It's not, but it is available, extensible, and becoming very popular.
-
- I don't know about y'all, but at this point in time that's all I need
- to hear...
-
- Marc
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- Marc Andreessen
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