Re: Snail mailing a FAQ?

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mathew (mathew@mantis.co.uk)
Tue, 27 Sep 1994 20:11:30 +0100

In message <199409271723.SAA05600@strider.inet.it>,
Piero Serini writes:
>Quoting from mathew (Tue Sep 27 15:57:28 1994):
>> If they can't read MIME, I tell 'em it's their problem, and they
>> should get software which obeys the RFCs and either handles MIME mail
>> or understands news articles of up to 64K.
>
>Please undestand that the Mime RFC isn't mandatory. The only RFC
>you should obey is the rfc822, no other mail extension is manda-
>tory on the Internet.

Right, we were talking about sending compressed (binary) files. There's
only one *standard* for that on the Internet, MIME.

>Moreover, I think the FAQ Maintainer's duty is to make informa-
>tion accessible, not nicely MIME encoded, if MIME encoding means
>difficulty.

I make it available as Usenet ASCII and WWW HTML by default. If you
can't cope with that and can't cope with a MIME encoded file, then it's
hard luck I'm afraid, as I can't think of any other sensible option.

mathew

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