From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
Cc: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: forwarding as text rather than MIME?
Date: 24 Feb 1999 13:43:23 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <orbtijhhw4.fsf@araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Chris Tessone's message of "Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:30:39 -0600"
On Feb 24, 1999, Chris Tessone <tessone@fnal.gov> wrote:
> I'm still not even clear on why forwarding mail messages (much less
> news posts) as MIME is even advantagous.
MIME messages *must* be forwarded as MIME, otherwise the MIME
structure is lost forever, and the message becomes mostly useless.
Only non-MIME messages could be forwarded with the old style without
loss of contents.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org,computer.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Instituto de Computação, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-24 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-15 18:20 Bill White
1999-02-15 20:36 ` Hans de Graaff
1999-02-19 14:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-20 9:44 ` Hans de Graaff
1999-02-21 7:21 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-21 10:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-21 19:37 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-21 19:40 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-22 12:54 ` Toni Drabik
1999-02-22 17:43 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-22 17:58 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-02-22 18:26 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-23 18:32 ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-02-24 15:52 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-02-24 16:17 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-24 16:30 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-24 16:43 ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
1999-02-24 16:52 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-24 17:01 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-02-24 17:10 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
[not found] ` <m3678rtieo.fsf@serpent.laymusic.>
1999-02-25 17:17 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-02-25 10:39 ` Russ Allbery
1999-02-26 7:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-26 11:48 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-26 12:30 ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-02-26 14:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-27 12:38 ` Russ Allbery
1999-02-27 13:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-27 14:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-28 19:21 ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-02-22 22:13 ` Aaron M. Ucko
1999-04-03 7:28 ` Hans de Graaff
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