At 12:58 PM 12/26/95, Ali Bahreman wrote:
Because there exist many mail UA's that do not support MIME. This is for
but they don't support pem or pgp, either. once you have to modify
them, you have opened the door to adding MIME, integrally or as a side
function.
the user. For example, the ietf-pay BOF minutes you forwarded was MIME.
I had to click 6 times to see all parts and my mailer later crashes. I was
using a famous mail tool... For automated services, it is easier not to
MIME was designed so as to NOT break mail readers. If yours did,
it needs to get fixed. I'd question whether it would deal with PEM or PGP
data all that well, either.
d/
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