Subject: Re: UUEncode

From: [email-masked] (Alan J. Flavell)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 13:47:58 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>    MIME is not really a standard as such' it's just what Pine uses.

Oh no, it's no more a standard than any of the other IAB standards-track
Internet RFCs.  They are all just some misguided idea of how we can
talk to each other on the Internet without actually using standards.  :-}

Now, perhaps you'd care to enlighten us as to what your stringent
criteria are for determining when a standard isn't a "standard as 
such".  Perhaps you'd do us the courtesy of reading what is meant
by an "IAB standards track protocol" first, though, and checking for
the presence of that phrase in, say, RFC1521 and 1522.

---
Alan  

"Just be careful where you're sticking that user support"