Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Internet Draft on Multimedia, Multipart Mail Keywords: IEF IETF RFC Mail RFC-822 Extension Message-ID: <9156@gollum.twg.com> Date: 24 Jun 91 18:43:00 GMT References: <335@actsn.fay.ar.us> Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 24 In article <335@actsn.fay.ar.us> david@actsn.fay.ar.us (David Summers) writes: >Hopefully this belongs in all of these groups... > >What chances are there of SMAIL 3.1.21, Smail shouldn't care unless it wants to try to intelligently fiddle with the contents. At least the contents are well enough marked that fiddling with them should be doable. But doing so shouldn't be necessary in all but the weirdest cases. (For instance, if final delivery is to a FAX machine...) >Also: What about UseNet/NetNews? Could this also apply to that? Sure, why not? The existing transport should be able to handle it since it just passes along headers it doesn't understand. All you'd have to do is fix up the user agents ... -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- <- <- "MS-DOS? Where we're going we don't need MS-DOS." --Back To The Future