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Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers

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From: Randall Atkinson
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 13:46
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In article <1993Jan8.211048.21332@infodev.cam.ac.uk> ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:

>If I wasn't using an SMTP mailer, for example (I use a Grey Book mailer)
>or if my mailer stripped out unrecognised headers for some reason.
>
>Surely this problem also comes up in connection with using MIME as a
>general file format, for use in (say) Gopher or FTP?  Or has nobody
>thought of doing that?

MIME works fine as is with gopher.  I can't imagine a reason why it
wouldn't work fine with ftp as well.  There is serious discussion of
adding MIME to USENET news as a new enhanced article format.

Ran
atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
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