Subj : Directly include binary data in messages
To : Tim Schattkowsky
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Thu Feb 24 2022 03:41 pm
Hello Tim!
24 Feb 22 15:19, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
TS> For private messages, there is little sense in competing with email.
TS> Surely fidonet netmail is not going to replace email during the next 5
TS> years. However, it makes a lot of sense to provide comparable capabilities
TS> just to enable users to make consistent use of netmail and echomail while
TS> having basic capabilities that are just not worse than email 20 years ago.
TS> Currently thats not remotely the case.
E-mail has not changed either in te last 20 years. The only thing that has
changed are the user clients that can now display mime encapsulated messages.
Designing a different way of encapsulation for fidonet is hardly productive.
Mime encapsulation is not hostile to the content section of fidonet messages.
No changes have to have to be made to Fidonet. The only changes
are at the presentation layer, wich is not subject to fidonet standards.
Kees
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