Re: Fwd: Re: IP: Microsoft breaks Mime specification

To: Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: IP: Microsoft breaks Mime specification
From: Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:25:49 -0800
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At 10:25 AM 1/23/2002 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:

Just to pick a small example: MIME has been out for nearly 10 years and
I'm still receiving, on a daily basis, MIME attachments that are
unreadable because they lack proper content-type labelling.


There is a difference between effective and perfect.

In the realm of human activity -- and that is where email resides -- effectiveness is probabilistic. The requirement is that the probabilities be high, but rarely that they be 100%.

d/


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