From: jamiel@sybase.com (Jamie Lawrence)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 17:21:56 PST
To: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: I Like ASCII, not MIME and Other Fancy Crap
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At 5:49 PM 11/18/94, Timothy C. May wrote:

>Personally, I like simple ASCII. No fancy fonts, no embedded graphics,
>no Quicktime movies I have to watch, etc.

But Tim, don't you believe in the march of progress?

;)

(I agree. I retrieved some of those docs this issue arose over. I
 got a MIME doc, the header of which told me to fetch a translator,
 and when translated I text plain text. I know that simple ASCII
 will be overtaken by fancier tech, but why the hell encode plain
 text in a non-human readable format?)

-j