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Re: lynx-dev Lynx vs. metamail
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Al Gilman |
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Re: lynx-dev Lynx vs. metamail |
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Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:11:03 -0400 (EDT) |
to follow up on what Larry W. Virden said:
>
> Many years ago (in fact, before the Web!), the only basic standards for
> email had to do with the headers of the messages. The contents could be
> any format. This caused a lot of grief when trying to figure out what
> was inside the message. Numerous folk tried attachment type formats.
> But no one had documented it. Then a gentleman whose name I seem to
> recall was Nathaniel Berstein or something close to that conceived of
...
Borenstein.
Good discussion.
For More Information see: RFC 1521.
Al