Re: Gopher+ Considered Harmful

Dan Connolly (connolly@pixel.convex.com)
Fri, 11 Dec 92 13:13:28 CST 

Message-Id: <9212111913.AA25973@pixel.convex.com>
To: Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: Gopher+ Considered Harmful 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Dec 92 11:47:53 +0100."
             <9212111047.AA29250.guido@voorn.cwi.nl> 
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 13:13:28 CST
From: Dan Connolly <connolly@pixel.convex.com>


>
>OK, when I said MIME data format I meant MIME message format, and was
>referring to the outer level only (and note that MIME *implies*
>RFC822).

Ding! No, but thanks for playing. A mime entity IS NOT NECESSARILY
A MESSAGE! I've tried to explain this a zillion times! You can
describe regular raw gif files with MIME content types. You
can for example do

% metamail -b -c "image/gif" foo.gif

where foo.gif is just a plain old gif file -- no headers, no
nothing.