I Like ASCII, not MIME and Other Fancy Crap
Jamie Lawrence
jamiel at sybase.com
Fri Nov 18 17:21:56 PST 1994
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
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