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Re: Ignoring non-MIME mailers?

1999-09-14 04:13:01
In <v0421010bb403470480d1(_at_)[130(_dot_)237(_dot_)150(_dot_)138]> Jacob Palme 
<jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> writes:

I have been wondering when the time would come when we could stop 
having non-mime compatibility as a major goal. I would guess 98 % of 
all mail users today use mime-compliant mailers. But there is the 
rest. We have, at our university department, a teacher who refuses to 
use anything else than some old non-MIME unix mailer. She says that 
if she gets a message her mailer cannot handle, she will forward it 
to another e-mail address at which she can read it using MIME. But 
only as a last resort!

ITYM 98% of users use mailers that _imagine_ they are mime-compliant :-( .

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