On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Bill Silvert wrote:
> While I agree on the training aspect, there is an option that could make
> life easier for many of us, which would be a filter to map MIME codes
> into ASCII. I've been thinking of writing one of these myself (just map
> c-cedilla and e-acute into plain c and e for example), but if anyone has
I think that your are mixing (at least) two things up. There are
a number of features of MIME that should be judged separately.
1. MIME give mail support for different character sets. Some Americans
seems to think that everyone should be satisfied with ASCII, but there
are other languages in the world besides English. And character sets
are of NO PROBLEM for Majordomo.
2. MIME gives mail support for 8 bit character width during transport by
providing encoding methods. Encoding is reversable and as long as your
system can handle eight bits (unix can) and you have latest version of
sendmail (you should if you can) you can let sendmail decode mail
(only text-parts of mail, see below) before it arrives to Majordomo.
8 bit character sets are needed (see 1 above). 8 bit data is of NO
PROBLEM for Majordomo.
3. MIME gives support for multipart mail. Multipart mail gives problem
for Majordomo if archiving is done. For distribution is depends on the
list members. It is not unresonable to forbid multipart mail in a list.
4. MIME gives support for other types of mail, besides pure text mail
(text/plain). Examples are text/html, application/postscript and
image/jpeg. Other types besides text/plain creates problems for Majordomo
if archiving is done. For distribution is depends on the list members. It
is not unresonable to forbid other types besides text/plain.
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Mats Dufberg Mats.Dufberg@abc.se
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