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Re: MIME



Subject: 
           Re: MIME
      Date: 
           Sat, 22 Mar 1997 07:34:24 -0500
      From: 
           Steve Falco <sfalco-at-worldnet.att-dot-net>
        To: 
           Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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> No no!  Using MIME is always a choice, and HTML should be banished from
> e-mail.  You also have HTML mixed up with MIME and uuencode.  HTML is a
> markup language for formatting documents, whereas MIME and uuencode are
> methods of encoding 8-bit data(pictures and programs) so that mail
> transfer agents don't strip the 8th bit.  TTYL!
> 
>                             ---
>                         Paul Anderson
>                    paul-at-geeky1.ebtech-dot-net
>     Author of Star Spek(a tongue in cheek pun on Star trek)
> e-mail: starspek-request-at-lowdown-dot-com with subscribe as the subject
> I hear it's hilarious.               Maintainer of the Tips-HOWTO.
>           http://www-dot-netcom-dot-com/~tonyh3/speck.html
>     Manuals out, after all possible keystrokes have failed.

As long as we are on the topic, I have another pet peeve.  Please do not
hit the <ENTER> key when you are composing your email with Netscape
(other than to start a new paragraph, of course!).  If you hit <ENTER>
at the end of each line, then when the message is displayed in Netscape
it will break your lines twice, usually giving one or two words on every
other line.  This makes some posts almost unreadable.

        Steve Falco
        sfalco-at-worldnet.att-dot-net