Message-Id: <m0mi7no-00007jC@garnet.msen.com> To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> Cc: nsb@thumper.bellcore.com, gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu, Subject: Re: misconceptions about MIME [long] In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 22 Oct 92 11:30:46. <92Oct22.113048pdt.101795@poplar.parc.xerox.com> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 92 15:02:21 EDT From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@msen.com> documents are going to move around on the nets, indefinitely, so long as they are all "free". As soon as you give people the opportunity to sell things (to exchange money in exchange for goods) you will be quite sure that people will construct document identifiers that do not move around. The Sears catalog numbers don't change from week to week cause Sears has proper incentives for making them work. --Ed