Re: More on merged drafts.

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:44 PM 12/6/96 -0800, Chris Newman wrote:
>
>While I'm a big proponent of MIME, I'm not convinced that MIME multipart
>structure is the correct way to represent all multipart structures.  MIME
>is a fairly heavy weight protocol due to it's email heritage and backwards
>compatibility requirements.  MIME encapsulation implies a full RFC 822
>tokenizer/parser, base64 and quoted-printable support.  For example, the
>line:

Base64 and QP are optional.  HTTP uses neither, or at least I haven't seen
them in HTTP.  QP is dangerous.  Look at what Exchange did with it, at
first.  Broke a lot of mail programs along the way.


Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corporation
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