Re: MIME implementation documentation

Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com> Fri, 16 August 1996 15:30 UTC

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From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
To: John C Klensin <klensin@mail1.reston.mci.net>
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Subject: Re: MIME implementation documentation
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At 2:47 AM -0700 8/16/96, John C Klensin wrote:
>Just a hunch, based on MUAs I've looked at recently, but
>   multipart/alternative
>and
>   multipart/parallel

		grrrrr.  good point.

		parallel is a lost, good idea.  alternative is important,
but I DO note that my own MUA doesn't support it.  grrrrr.

>from the wire is trivial and uninteresting.  Implementing to a
>level of quality needed to show actual utility -- that the
>feature has the right syntax and semantics to actually serve
>useful purpose as defined -- is, IMO, another matter and I'm not
>convinced that we are there yet.

	agree, about the importance.  suspect you are right about status.

d/

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