In article <mailman.2191.1350265325.27098.python-l...@python.org>, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Classically, NNTP did not have "attachments" as seen in MIME email. NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol) and SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) are both just ways of shipping around messages. Neither one really knows about attachments. In both mail and news, "attachments" are a higher-level concept encoded inside the message content and managed by the various user applications. > It did have "binaries" in some encoding -- UUE, BASE64, or some > newer format, but these encodings were the raw body of the post(s), not > something "attached" as a separate file along with a text body. This is all true of both mail and news, with only trivial changes of the formats and names of the encodings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
