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Re: MIME
Mr. Anonymous does well to remain anonymous. His comments are
embarassing to him.
Naturally the idea is old -- I explicitly mentioned NeXT mail, didn't
I? The point is that this is an open, non-proprietary, and
STANDARDIZED framework for doing arbitrary recursive encapsulation of
data in EMail.
Perry
[email protected] says:
> > Once you've seen a secretary who barely understands anything drag a
> > spreadsheet into a mail message and send it to someone on another
> > continent who, equally ignorantly, just double-clicks on it and then
> > has the spreadsheet program launch, you will understand what the point
> > of MIME is.
>
> Is this what the big deal about MIME is?
>
> Damn, I've been doing this (cutting and pasting spreadsheets,
> launching them by double clicking) for years now on Mac's and PC's
> running Windows. Heck, under NeXTSTEP as well.
>