Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:41:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199702132041.NAA00703@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199702130839.TAA00435@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> from "John Birrell" at Feb 13, 97 07:38:59 pm
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> But what do we do if "MIME application/msword" takes over 90 percent of > email traffic (like msword has done with wp)? Imagine what this > list would be like... Ugh. So make the list manager "MIME aware" so it decodes and reencodes mail coming through it, stripping attachments that it doesn't like. > We are prevented from reverse engineering by the licence for msword > (I guess, since other MS products have that clause). MS is unlikely > to publicly document Word file format. "We" is very broad here. Most Europeans, especially Germans, are not prevented from reverse engineering file formats or other interfaces. The US agreed to this when the US became a Berne signatory. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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