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Excerpts from internet.mmm-people: 28-Dec-92 NeXTMail on the Mac Mitch
Silverman@ucbvax.B (1115)

>  If so, do the annotations conform to
> MIME standards, or, more to the point, was the MIME standard 
> written to allow for NeXTMail transmission?

One of the ways we achieved consensus in defining MIME was by making
sure that we weren't standardizing on any existing format for which some
vendor would have a substantial advantage.  Thus MIME is not NeXTMail. 
However, it is not really very hard to take an existing multimedia mail
program and retrofit it to read and write MIME instead of its native
format -- I did it, for example, with the latest version of Andrew.

You could also, in theory, encapsulate an entire Nextmail message by
defining a MIME type for it (e.g. application/nextmail) but that would
be a poor solution, in my view, because it wouldn't interoperate well. 
Much better would be for future versions of Nextmail software to
understand both its own format and MIME, and to generate whichever the
user prefers.  -- Nathaniel