Subject: Re: Mime

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 19:05:28 -0400

On 8 Sep 1996, Andrew Tuitt wrote:

> Mime is a big problem because whenever I send a file, program, or picture
> it sends a whole ton of text that no one I know can decode.
> Can this Mime thing be changed to something else that people on America
> Online and CompuServe can decode?

    You could suggest to AOL and CompuServe that they get with the
program and conform their email software to a published Internet
standard! :-)

    Seriously, there was come complaint on an active and international
mailing list I am on about sending 8-bit characters (usually
ISO-8859-1).  Not long after, the list owner announced that the
software on the server (in Denmark) was being made Mime-compliant, and
that as far as he was concerned, it was up to subscribers to be able to
handle Mime-compliant email, because it is an Internet standard.  (With
Pine, of course, I have no problems. :-) )

    I know that doesn't help you with your immediate problem, but
unless outfits like AOL and CIS are pushed, they may not comply with
standards.  They seem to think that everybody wants, and is too stupid
to handle anything else but, point-and-click.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Andrew Tuitt)
Date: 8 Sep 1996 16:00:19 GMT

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