Eric Hughes says:
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
xpat@vm1.spcs.umn.edu says:
IMHO, an ideal message would have the ability to handle nested objects of varying types, MIME is only a start.
What is it precisely that you might want to encapsulate that MIME can't encapsulate?
Perry, you're missing the whole point, just like the exchange a few days about a remailer format standard.
If I am missing the whole point, it is because people are being extremely vague about stating the point. This is engineering, not social science. One specifies things precisely, as in "I think MIME can't specify how to encapsulate a sound file", or "I think MIME doesn't have the right headers defined to specify how long a mail message is to be delayed". This fuzzy-engineering might feel good to some of you but from my perspective it does nothing to enhance the information content fo the discussion. Perry