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Article #202Re: Mass market MIME based e-mail question
From: Jurgen Botz
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:44
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:44
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In article <1992Oct13.113431.7685@infodev.cam.ac.uk> ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes: >MIME is just a content encoding. The mail packages you mention are all >transport mechanisms as well. So you would have to run MIME over something, >like POP2/POP3/IMAP2/IMAP3/..., and these protocols are not stable enough >to be attractive to many commercial vendors, I suspect. I don't buy this argument. What do you mean by "not stable enough"..? Do you think that these vendors never change their protocols? A lot of them won't even bother maintaining backward compatibility when they do! (They have less need to do so since customers can usually upgrader their whole site if they choose to upgrade). Internet protocols are far more concerned with interoperability and are generally "stable" for much longer stretches of time than proprietary vendor protocols. -- Jurgen Botz | Internet: JBotz@mtholyoke.edu Academic Systems Consultant | Bitnet: JBotz@mhc.bitnet Mount Holyoke College | Voice: (US) 413-538-2375 (daytime) South Hadley, MA, USA | Snail Mail: J. Botz, 01075-0629
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!jbotz From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) Subject: Re: Mass market MIME based e-mail question Message-ID: <Bw2E9L.9Kx@mtholyoke.edu> Sender: news@mtholyoke.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Mount Holyoke College References: <1992Oct13.054709.22181@netcom.com> <1992Oct13.113431.7685@infodev.cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:44:08 GMT Lines: 18