On Fri, 18 Dec 92 10:58:25 +0900,
erik(_at_)poel(_dot_)juice(_dot_)or(_dot_)jp (Erik M. van der Poel) said:
Erik> In email, there are two basic requirements:
Erik> (1) transmissibility
Erik> (2) readability
Erik> MIME's Q-P and Base64 take care of (1), but until many people
actually
Erik> have MIME decoders installed, (2) suffers. It seems to me that
this
Erik> is the raison d'&e>tre of Keld's "mnemonic" method. In reality,
we
Erik> probably have to strike some sort of balance between (1) and (2).
Erik> It'll be interesting to see just how fast MIME decoders get
installed,
Erik> and whether readability will then become less of a requirement.
Actually, the burden of (2) resides with the composer: this is what
the multipart/alternative content-type is for. Any multibyte text that
basically resembles ascii should probably have an alternative,
readable-by-7-bit-users representation included, at least until MIME
decoders proliferate.
This has the advantage of giving us readability and transmissibility
without revising the spec :)
-Rens
__ ___ , __
/__) /__ /| / ( | J. Laurens Troost Lehman Brothers Technical Services
/ \ (___ / |/ __) | *Opinions expressed herein are mine. Mine, I tell you!*
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INET: rens(_at_)shearson(_dot_)com VOICE: (212) 464-3705 FAX:
(212) 464-2040