"Chuck Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Gervase Markham wrote:
> >
> > I would say this is mostly a user-eduation issue, and it's up to
> > individual IT departments to set up an uploadable FTP/HTTP server for
> > their users to use. It is certainly the case that Mozilla should support
> > FTP/HTTP upload/PUT.
> >
> > Gerv
>
> There is an old mime type, I think message/external-body, that I tested
> in Navigator 3.0 (it worked). The protocols were limited to FTP and
> gopher as I recall. If you dig in the RFC's, you can find it. It
> probably needs a bit of polishing to be useful these days. In any case,
> the mime type allows the message body to be separate.
That' true, but it also brings up the same security/privacy
concerns as images in HTML mail. Namely, the ability to
track.