From: NetSurfer <jdwilson@gold.chem.hawaii.edu>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 94 18:53:53 PST
To: Jamie Lawrence <jamiel@sybase.com>
Subject: Re: I Like ASCII, not MIME and Other Fancy Crap
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On Fri, 18 Nov 1994, Jamie Lawrence wrote:

> (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?)

Especially when it makes it impossible to forward a message without extra
steps to include the attachments...


-NetSurfer

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