From cowan@ccil.org Tue Jun 12 03:45:04 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 12 Jun 2001 10:45:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 86454 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2001 10:45:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 12 Jun 2001 10:45:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3 with SMTP; 12 Jun 2001 10:45:04 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 159lfe-0000yi-00; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 06:45:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] DO NOT USE HTML MAIL In-Reply-To: <0106112320170L.01000@neofelis> from Pierre Abbat at "Jun 11, 2001 11:09:37 pm" To: phma@oltronics.net Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 06:45:13 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Pierre Abbat scripsit: > There is no such protocol, to my knowledge, as "cid:". Actually there is: see RFC 2392. The cid: URL scheme refers precisely to another part of a multipart MIME message using its Content-ID: header. > An HTML document CANNOT refer to an image in the same file; it > can only refer to an image in a separate file. File, no; MIME message, yes. > Do not use HTML mail. > > Do not send huge files to a mailing list. > > Do not send BMP or PNM (including PGM, PBM, PPM) files by email without > compressing them. Indeed. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter