Re: Gopher+ Considered Harmful

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

>
>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.