Re: Snail mailing a FAQ?

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Piero Serini (piero@strider.inet.it)
Wed, 28 Sep 1994 11:29:00 +0100 (MET)


Hello.

Quoting from mathew (Tue Sep 27 20:11:11 1994):
> >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.

No. There's uuencode, available on VMS, Un*x, MS-DOS, OS/2, Mac, ...

Bye,

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