Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:15:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199702121715.KAA00715@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199702120310.OAA08085@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> from "John Birrell" at Feb 12, 97 02:10:35 pm
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> I'm curious about what people regard as typical MIME applications > that a site is expected to support. The volume of business email > containing MIME "application/msword" has now exceeded my level of > tolerance. When I consider changing ISPs and they send the > application form MIME encoded for an application I do not have... > When I receive support updates from a company we _pay_ for support > and they send them MIME encoded... Grrr. Enough! > > Opinions? 1) Boundry identification 2) Multile logical message bodies seperated by boundry identifiers 3) Content transfer encoding for binary data As to what binary data is permitted to be encoded: 1) Any binary data the sender and the recipient can agree upon Though I'd be perfectly happy to see this limited to binary data for which public source reference implementations exist (ie: no more Word documents unless Microsoft publically documents Word file format, no PDF documents unless Adobe documents their "encryption" preventing the use of non-Adobe readers, but not preventing any Adobe reader from decoding the document, etc., etc.). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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