Re: I Like ASCII, not MIME and Other Fancy Crap

[jamiel@sybase.com (Jamie Lawrence)]

At 5:49 PM 11/18/94, Timothy C. May wrote:

>Personally, I like simple ASCII. No fancy fonts, no embedded graphics,
>no Quicktime movies I have to watch, etc.

But Tim, don't you believe in the march of progress?

;)

(I agree. I retrieved some of those docs this issue arose over. I
 got a MIME doc, the header of which told me to fetch a translator,
 and when translated I text plain text. I know that simple ASCII
 will be overtaken by fancier tech, but why the hell encode plain
 text in a non-human readable format?)

-j