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- From: dave@intercon.com (Dave Saunders)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
- Subject: Re: MIME
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:47:40 -0500
- Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation
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- References: <5227@ceylon.gte.com>
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- In article <5227@ceylon.gte.com>, ljd2@roger.gte.com (Leonard D'Alotto)
- writes:
- > I have been asked to learn about, and become conversant about,
- > something called MIME(?). I haven't a clue as to what it is, but it is
- > supposedly some type of multimedia messaging standard, system, ow
- > whatever. It fell on me as I happen to know a little about X.400. If
- > anyone can point me in the right direction for gaining knowledge on
- > this subject, it would be appreciated.
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- MIME is an extension to SMTP that allows for many of the features that mac
- X.400 such a nifty messaging protocol. There are two RFCs that provide a bulk
- of the information
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- 1344 Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways
- 1341 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Mechanisms for Specifying
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- and there are a number of IETF drafts in the works that can be retrieved via
- FTP from nic.dnn.mil.
-
- Dave
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- Dave Saunders <dave@intercon.com>
- InterCon Systems Corporation
- "Standards-based networking for a standards-based world"
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