Wed, 15 Jun 1994 19:14:46 EDT
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> I think there is a misunderstanding. It now seems that you guys have been
> talking about "genuine" MIME messages, with multimedia stuff and binary
> exhibits (what "MIME" stands for, in other words). These messages are
> clearly not usable unless you have a MIME mail program and some
> multimedia applications, and there's nothing an intermediary server like
> LISTSERV can do to help non-MIME users with these. I on the other hand
> was talking about plain text messages that just happened to be MIME-ified
> on the basis that there were non-ASCII characters that might get lost
> otherwise, and with the result that only a select few can read the
> message. I only see the former in RFC examples, whereas I run across the
> latter every day :-)
Actually, I wasn't talking about either one. What I see the most of are
regular text messages that happen to be sent in MIME format. They are
readable with a non-MIME reader, but are much nicer witha MIME reader.
By the way, the mail reader I normally use is not MIME-aware.
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