At 10:25 AM 1/23/2002 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
Just to pick a small example: MIME has been out for nearly 10 years and
I'm still receiving, on a daily basis, MIME attachments that are
unreadable because they lack proper content-type labelling.
There is a difference between effective and perfect.
In the realm of human activity -- and that is where email resides --
effectiveness is probabilistic. The requirement is that the probabilities
be high, but rarely that they be 100%.
d/
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