Re: I Like ASCII, not MIME and Other Fancy Crap

At 5:49 PM 11/18/94, Timothy C. May wrote:

Personally, I like simple ASCII. No fancy fonts, no embedded graphics, no Quicktime movies I have to watch, etc.

But Tim, don't you believe in the march of progress? ;) (I agree. I retrieved some of those docs this issue arose over. I got a MIME doc, the header of which told me to fetch a translator, and when translated I text plain text. I know that simple ASCII will be overtaken by fancier tech, but why the hell encode plain text in a non-human readable format?) -j