On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 02:28:06AM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> HTML is a text markup facility.
> MIME is a general-purpose encoding scheme for *any* content type.
>
> Tell me, Luke, how would MIME help you enriched email
> using MIME? The only way I can think of is encoding an enriched
> document, which brings us to the same probs we have with HTML
> email: bulk, useless in text-only, etc.etc
Don't go too hard on Luke. MIME did in fact define it's own
"rich text format". Based somewhat on tools of the Andrew text
editor system at CMU, I believe.
> > Though I only know of one mail program that displays MIME 100% correctly
> > according to the specs, and *that* one is a friend's private hobby
> > project still in development. :-(
I suspect that the Andrew mail system did it right too, but
since that never got out of CMU, I haven't had a chance to look
at it.
To Luke's friend: How useful is it to have the only mailer in
existence that supports _any_ standard?
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Andrew
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