From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 13 12:41:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA06749 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:41:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA06739 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:41:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA00703; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:41:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199702132041.NAA00703@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:41:02 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199702130839.TAA00435@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> from "John Birrell" at Feb 13, 97 07:38:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.