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- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!ra!atkinson
- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- Message-ID: <C0LA9I.9AB@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil
- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC
- References: <1993Jan8.201921.17081@twg.com> <1993Jan8.211048.21332@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 13:46:29 GMT
- Lines: 15
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- In article <1993Jan8.211048.21332@infodev.cam.ac.uk> ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
-
- >If I wasn't using an SMTP mailer, for example (I use a Grey Book mailer)
- >or if my mailer stripped out unrecognised headers for some reason.
- >
- >Surely this problem also comes up in connection with using MIME as a
- >general file format, for use in (say) Gopher or FTP? Or has nobody
- >thought of doing that?
-
- MIME works fine as is with gopher. I can't imagine a reason why it
- wouldn't work fine with ftp as well. There is serious discussion of
- adding MIME to USENET news as a new enhanced article format.
-
- Ran
- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
-