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Re: compressed content-transfer-encoding?

1999-07-31 10:25:39
At 07:28 AM 7/29/99 , Keith Moore wrote:
> We already have a standard for sending compressed data in e-mail.
> We have an IANA registered content-type application/zip.

application/zip is not a standard.

Just to beat this one into the ground:

It's also not a compression mechanism.

It does "bagging" of independent obkects, but does not compress the bits.

d/



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