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In article <MS-C.703140271.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> Mark  
Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
> If, with InterfaceBuilder and c-client, it is too hard to write
> MIMEware for the NeXT, then maybe NeXT isn't the great development
> platform for `mission critical application' that its PR flaks claim.
> I've heard you guys rave for years now.  You can talk the talk; can
> you walk the walk?

At the moment, there isn't sufficient motivation for NeXT users to use MIME  
because NewsGrazer handles existing needs.  As soon as someone shows a  
'compelling advantage' to MIME, I'm sure things will start popping up.  That  
will probably be when 'comp.sys.sun.misc' has about as many MIME posts as  
comp.sys.next.misc has RTF posts.

How much MIME-compatible software is there commercially?  How much is  
integrated by the vendor?  Everybody's announced official support.  Has that  
finally turned into usable products?

> Better hurry.  A guy at SUN recently finished a MIME SUN mailer based
> upon c-client.  I don't know if it was for internal use only or is a
> new product.

Interesting.  SUN has been claiming a multi-media mail system for Solaris 2.0.   
Will it be based on MIME?  Jobs said [in last month's MicroTimes] that NeXT had  
offerred to work with Sun on a 'common ground' for multi-media mail.  

Mark, if you really want to kill NewsGrazer, write something that is better,  
can read both RTF and MIME, but *only* posts in MIME format.
If that's not what you want, why does it bother you so much that people are  
content with 'inferior, non-standard' technology?

- Ernie P.

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Ernest N. Prabhakar                  Caltech High Energy Physics
Member, League for Programming Freedom (league@prep.ai.mit.edu)
CaJUN President        NeXTMail:ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu
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