I am on a net resources list that distributes as html - the files are
immediately usable via mosaic. Useful!
Jim Meritt
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Subject: Re: MIME-digestified mailing lists
Author: Dave Del Torto <ddt@lsd.com> at SMTPINET
Date: 2/9/95 12:42 PM
At 4:32 am 2/6/95, Paul S R Chisholm wrote:
>Are there many digestified lists out there moving to MIME digests? (I
>get List-Managers as a digest; it doesn't use the MIME convention.) Do
>people think this is "the wave of the future" for list digests, and if
>so, when might it dominate plain old text digests?
I use a version of Eudora which treats MIME digests in a very elegant way
that I'm not allowed to describe, and it seems to me that this is
definitely the trend of the future and that more and more software will
want to be MIME-compliant. For example, we're actually working on the new
PGP 3.x API to send all of its output in MIME-compatible format, since it's
a very elegant way of dividing msg parts and extending PGP functionality
easily.
While I have no perspective on *when* MIME might take over from text
formatted list mail, but on the freeware Eudora lists, people are already
beginning to ask how to use them. I do find it disappointing that not all
versions of LISTSERV and Majordomo yet support MIME digests, but I expect
that the developers are planning on that, if not actively working on
implementing it.
dave
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