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- From: trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 03:18:57 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
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- In article <1993Jan10.150252.11230@infodev.cam.ac.uk> ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
- >Perhaps the MIME people see MIME only as a temporary solution for
- >TCP/IP mailers, which would be rather sad. Surely it doesn't take much
- >imagination to see it as a much more usable alternative to ODA?
-
- Well, as has been said, MIME is in use in the Gopher community, where it
- is defined as "a file starting with MIME headers". I have heard suggestions
- for its use with WAIS, though I think that idea fizzled. It works with
- Gopher because Gopher already presumes that all text transactions are done
- in US-ASCII or a superset like ISO-8859-1. Gopher also provides for 8-bit
- binary data. I don't know which of the two is used by MIME.
-
- It's not appropriate for use in FTP. It might be useful on local systems
- for file storage and retrieval, though.
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