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Re: I Like ASCII, not MIME and Other Fancy Crap
On Fri, 18 Nov 1994, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
> (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?)
Especially when it makes it impossible to forward a message without extra
steps to include the attachments...
-NetSurfer
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