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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Internet Draft on Multimedia, Multipart Mail
Keywords: IEF IETF RFC Mail RFC-822 Extension
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.205855.11332@alphalpha.com>
Date: 24 Jun 91 20:58:55 GMT
References: <335@actsn.fay.ar.us>
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In article <335@actsn.fay.ar.us> david@actsn.fay.ar.us (David Summers) writes:
>I'm really excited by this and in a way am kind of confused as to why it has
>taken so long (???) to come up with a binary "standard" for e-mail?  It 
It hasn't.  RFC 1154 provids support for it (and the Poste mail system
uses this).  Z-Mail also supports binary enclosures, but not using any
of the released RFCs.  And there are older RFCs than 1154 which also
provide means of doing binary message transfer.  There just hasn't been
the critical mass or need to see these things used heavily before now.



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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.