Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 6-Mar-92 Re: Showstopper from EUnet ..
Keld J|rn Simonsen(_at_)dkuug (2791)
4. It is the only spec that preserves interoperability of internet mail,
in fact MIME destroys internet interoperability.
Keld, if you're going to make statements like this to a mailing list
that has spent over a year carefully designing a protocol -- MIME -- in
which preserving internet interoperability was perhaps the very highest
concern, you at least owe it to us to give us a clue what you're talking
about. Otherwise, you're very rapidly destroying what credibility you
have left in this forum. -- Nathaniel