MIME based remailing commands

Eric Hughes eric at remailer.net
Wed Feb 8 20:27:14 PST 1995


   From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at imsi.com>

   xpat at 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.

MIME is primarily a packaging standard.  MIME does not define the
innards, the payload, the contents.  MIME is only a start at what the
complete data format should look like.  You say MIME, and you've not
completely specified the data format, but rather constrained it in a
way that most everybody basically agrees with, including me.

Eric






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