Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ucselx!bionet!arisia!roo!masinter From: masinter@parc.xerox.com (Larry Masinter) Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media Subject: Re: Multi-media mail standards; Forw: Use of ODA in the Internet Message-ID: Date: 14 Aug 90 07:58:17 GMT References: <1242.649050446@nma.com> <8652@cognos.UUCP> Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 31 In-reply-to: richardb@cognos.UUCP's message of 2 Aug 90 18:42:52 GMT 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? -- Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com) Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) 3333 Coyote Hill Road; Palo Alto, CA USA 94304 Fax: (415) 494-4333