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I've just started reading this newsgroup. What do current multi-media
systems do for posting mail across the Internet?

The following is just my impression from brief encounter with a couple
of multi-media mail systems:

It seems that NeXT machines want to transmit RTF + uuencoded data for
sounds; (or is it a tar file of the RTF plus the required accompanying
data.)

Andrew seems to want its own ascii representation (looks a little like
SGML with backslash and {} braces).

The Interlisp-D/Xerox Common Lisp mailer could mail image objects
using the Xerox mail system; Bob Bane did a hack where mail transport
across Unix mail sytems would uuencode the binary and uudecode it on
the way in.

What does BBN/Diamond do? Other multi-media mail systems?

I caught the tail end of an argument (well, flame exchange) about
whether it is important that the mail be viewable on 'dumb' terminals.
Are there other issues?



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