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RFC 822: Messages consist of lines of text. No special provisions...

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Comment by Weeks
Submitted on 9/2/2004
Related RFC: RFC 822
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Messages consist of lines of text. No special provisions are made for encoding drawings, facsimile, speech, or structured text. No significant consideration has been given to questions of data compression or to transmission and storage efficiency, and the standard tends to be free with the number of bits consumed. For example, field names are specified as free text,rather than special terse codes.