From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 10:11:15 CST
In <3caae0df.8524760@mail.infostar.de> infstar@infostar.de (Juergen Helbing) writes:
>All these things do not affect the "Usenet message format" draft/RFC.
>Because it will result in a completely different "Usenet binary
>format" draft/RFC and a "how to post binaries to Usenet".
Which will be yet another ad hoc solution to a problem to which
standardized solutions already exist. I cannot see the IESG allowing that
to be published.
>It was not my intention to "retrigger" the MIME discussion again. I
>did this (in vain) a few times with news-admins, nntp-programmers,
>mail-programmers, in the MIME newsgroup, with a MIME-RFC-creator...
>However it was interesting to follow it again here.
Well I will have a go myself on the ietf-822 list. To do it any other way
is plain crazy.
I supopose at a pinch this WG could define it in an extensions document,
for use in Netnews only.
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