From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald)
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 94 15:43:32 PST
To: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald)
Subject: Re: McCoy is Right! New Mail Format to Start Now.
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James A. Donald says:
> Thus mime is, as Tim earlier complained, bleeding edge.
>
> Netscape is leading edge.
Please note that MIME is an encapsulation methodology -- ZMail,
Eudora, AMS and others are implementations.
Netscape is an implementation. HTML and HTTP are the things that it
implements (along with some other protocols).
Just keep in mind the distinction between a standard and the
implementations of that standard -- they are different.
Perry
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