Subject: Re: [lojban] DO NOT USE HTML MAIL

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 06:45:13 -0400 (EDT)

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.

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John Cowan [email-masked]
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