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In article <1992Apr13.180319.27959@cco.caltech.edu>
ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar) writes:

   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

how about this "compelling advantage":  MIME is a standard format,
that is not platform dependent.  It is also very extensible.  and it
exists for many platforms today.  I've got the latest version of MH
with MIME support built and running on our machines here at Duke
Computer Science.

   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.

this is not a Sun vs. NeXT argument, its a World vs. NeXT-users
argument.  If the rest of the world is going to use the MIME standard
for multi-media mail/posting, then why shouldn't NeXT users lead the
way as I keep seeing people claim about NeXT users...  As the saying
goes, "either lead, follow, or get out of the way."

   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?

are you telling me that NeXT is distributing newsgrazer with their
systems.  i thought it was and add-on...  How much newsgrazer
compatible is there available commercially?  there are plenty of
MIME-compatible implementations out there.  Just give the vendors a
little bit of time to incorporate them into their own systems.  It
takes a good bit of time to make a production release of an OS, and
incorporating new features like MIME will take a bit of time.  But if
you want to use MIME today, you can easily do it by getting one of the
freely available clients to let you do so.
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