From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 94 15:21:34 PST
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: The Thread That Wouldn't Die (Was: Re: McCoy is Right!)
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L. McCarthy wrote:
> >Right. We went through dozens of messages to establish that some people like
> >MIME and others don't, just as we did several weeks ago. What a surprise that
> >not much has changed since then. Bleeding wonderful.
 
On Fri, 16 Dec 1994, Lucky Green wrote:
> And we will go through it again and again and again until the ones who
> don't like MIME wake up to the fact that MIME is essential for todays and
> tomorrows email messages.


Well it certainly is not essential for todays messages.

Drop into alt.binaries.pictures.*

When the news people wish to transmit pictures of naked girls, etc,
they do not use MIME

Now maybe they should use MIME, and maybe they will use MIME in 
the future, but today, MIME is still bleeding edge.

If you want to fix that, start programming instead of shooting
the messenger.


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