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- From: Hunter Goatley <goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: Summary: Is there a point to MIME?
- Message-ID: <0095F2EA.3B879CA0.6881@WKUVX1.BITNET>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 12:45:36 EDT
- Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
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- Thanks for everyone's input. I had forgotten about MAIL/FOREIGN (in
- fact, I never even tried it until now).
-
- Thomas Richter sums up my thoughts when read the MIME RFC:
- >
- >As I see it, MX is made for routing and providing the
- >transport. It shouldn't touch the message itself to hide deficiencies
- >in the user agent.
- >
- That's exactly what was going through my mind after reading it, though
- I agree that it has some useful purpose through MAIL/FOREIGN.
-
- As I said before, don't expect MX to include anything MIME-related for
- quite some time, if ever.
-
- Hunter
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- Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
- goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
-