From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 06:01:43 CDT
In <yl8zhzoghh.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>Erland Sommarskog <sommar@algonet.se> writes:
>> I let it suffice trying to keep the worst insanities out of news. Just
>> because MIME is there does not mean that we have to use every single bit
>> of it.
>This isn't what you said. What you said is that you don't like a part of
>MIME and think it should be changed in mail as well. This is not
>something within the scope of this working group, such as the specific
>implications of MIME for netnews. It is something that applies to both
>messaging applications of MIME, and as such is a topic for a MIME working
>group.
Well, all the MIME standards explicitly address themselves to mail only,
so in principle we could define news/MIME differently (indeed we did at
one time). However, the present draft is completely consistent with the
MIME specs at the moment. No exceptions.
>I maintain that if your objections are not *netnews-specific*, they are
>best directed to a working group that is not netnews-specific. Otherwise,
>they very much look like a backhanded attempt to change MIME without
>actually talking to the MIME people by encoding a bunch of restrictions on
>MIME into a separate protocol document and then using that as political
>pressure.
But our present draft DOES try to ensure the MIME standards are used in a
certain way (at the SHOULD level) within news - but that is not a change
to MIME.
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