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RE: MIME

Subject: 
        RE: MIME
  Date: 
        Mon, 17 Mar 97 06:54:29 UT
  From: 
        "William Noble" <William_B_Noble-at-msn-dot-com>
    To: 
        "Tesla List" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


I don't think that there is much choice about MIME or UUENCODE or HTML
or 
whatever.  When you compose a mail message, it has to be encoded somehow
to 
pass through the net to the server and back again.  It does seem to me
that 
something is happening in the server though that is messing up the MIME 
formats - normally your mail reader should take care of the mime and you 
shouldn't see it.  At least that's the case with my reader (microsoft
outlook 
or microsoft exchange, via MSN).  Thus, when I do see the mime encoded 
material, I know there is something wrong with the encoding.  I think
what is 
happening is that the server is either not decoding the MIME material
before 
sending it back out, or is adding some new information at the front of
the 
message (like a blank line, maybe??) that messes up the mime stream. 
Anyway, 
the point of all this is that using mime or not using mime is not always
a 
choice.  But HTML can be avoided.