Excerpts from mail: 5-May-95 Re: IETF on verge of standa..
rfb(_at_)lehman(_dot_)com (2029)
On the other hand, I've always
found it annoying to have a plain ascii message wrapped up in
unnecessary encapsulation. This was something that caused a lot of
people to complain when NSB introduced encapsulation into the CMU
community when Andrew Messages was gaining popularity.
Actually, I'm not sure what you're referring to here. In Andrew, we
always tried really hard to represent a plain ascii message as nothing
more than plain ascii.
BTW, another advantage of the multipart approach over the headers
approach is that it has a lower likelihood of being destructively mucked
with by gateways to non-Internet mail systems. -- Nathaniel
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