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In article <1993Jan10.150252.11230@infodev.cam.ac.uk> ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
>Perhaps the MIME people see MIME only as a temporary solution for
>TCP/IP mailers, which would be rather sad.  Surely it doesn't take much
>imagination to see it as a much more usable alternative to ODA?

Well, as has been said, MIME is in use in the Gopher community, where it
is defined as "a file starting with MIME headers".  I have heard suggestions
for its use with WAIS, though I think that idea fizzled.  It works with
Gopher because Gopher already presumes that all text transactions are done
in US-ASCII or a superset like ISO-8859-1.  Gopher also provides for 8-bit
binary data.  I don't know which of the two is used by MIME.

It's not appropriate for use in FTP.  It might be useful on local systems
for file storage and retrieval, though.

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