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Subject: Re: HTML-enabled mailing lists
From: Jeffrey Goldberg <J . Goldberg @ Cranfield . ac . uk>
Organization: Cranfield University Computer Centre
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:25:52 +0100 (BST)
To: Rich Pieri <rich . pieri @ prescienttech . com>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <x7k9933txv.fsf@gkar.prescienttech.com>
Reply-to: Jeffrey Goldberg <J . Goldberg @ Cranfield . ac . uk>

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On 6 Apr 1998, Rich Pieri wrote:

> The purpose of (en)rich(ed) text, aka RTF, as a MIME type is to allow
> "pretty" mail messages.

Rich Text Format (RTF) is not the same as enriched text (text/enriched ?).

The former was designed as a standard page description language (sort of
like postscript, dvi, or pdf) for exchanging documents between different
word processes.  The latter was designed to make email pretty.


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> Version: 4.0 Business Edition

I've never heard of version 4.


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