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| Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1991 08:14:27 -0500 (EST) |
| From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@thumper.bellcore.com> |
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| To: ietf-822@dimacs.rutgers.edu |
| Subject: Re: a MIME-Version misfeature |
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| I have no problem with changing the BNF to permit the period, as Mark |
| suggests. However, I disagree violently with the following comment: |
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| Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 23-Dec-91 a MIME-Version misfeature |
| Mark Crispin@cac.washing (429*) |
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| > All in all, it's starting to look like MIME-Version is not really all that |
| > well thought out and is in danger of being superfluous baggage. |
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| Some kind of version number is, in my opinion, totally vital -- getting |
| rid of MIME-Version without some similar versioning mechanism to replace |
| it would be, for me, a real show-stopper. |
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| By the way, this message is being sent by an experimental version of |
| Andrew I'm playing with. I'd be interested in any comments you have on |
| its formatting, etc. -- Nathaniel |
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| I have no problem with changing the BNF to permit the period, as Mark |
| suggests. However, I disagree violently with the following |
| comment:<nl><nl><excerptedcaption>Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 23-Dec-91 a |
| MIME-Version misfeature Mark Crispin@cac.washing |
| (429*)</excerptedcaption><nl><nl><quotation>All in all, it's starting to look |
| like MIME-Version is not really all that<nl></quotation><quotation>well |
| thought out and is in danger of being superfluous |
| baggage.<nl></quotation><nl>Some kind of version number is, in my opinion, |
| totally vital -- getting rid of MIME-Version without some similar versioning |
| mechanism to replace it would be, for me, a real show-stopper.<nl><nl>By the |
| way, this message is being sent by an experimental version of Andrew I'm |
| playing with. I'd be interested in any comments you have on its formatting, |
| etc. -- Nathaniel<nl>\ |
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| I have no problem with changing the BNF to permit the period, as Mark |
| suggests. However, I disagree violently with the following comment: |
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| \excerptedcaption{Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 23-Dec-91 a MIME-Version |
| misfeature Mark Crispin@cac.washing (429*)} |
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| \quotation{All in all, it's starting to look like MIME-Version is not really |
| all that |
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| Some kind of version number is, in my opinion, totally vital -- getting rid of |
| MIME-Version without some similar versioning mechanism to replace it would be, |
| for me, a real show-stopper. |
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| |
| By the way, this message is being sent by an experimental version of Andrew |
| I'm playing with. I'd be interested in any comments you have on its |
| formatting, etc. -- Nathaniel |
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