[pchelpers] Re: simple answer
- From: "Cyril Halbach" <kr3y@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:34:23 -0500
Tactile Lady
Try this URL
http://www.mhonarc.org/~ehood/MIME/MIME.html
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIME
This document provides links to information about Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions (MIME). MIME extends the format of Internet mail to allow
non-US-ASCII textual messages, non-textual messages, multipart message
bodies, and non-US-ASCII information in message headers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Durham" <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 21:59 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: simple answer
> All I know is they involve base 64 encoding of information. This is
> likely used for archive compression, and perhaps mailing too. Encoding
> can introduce some fill characters, which then come back once the data
> is read. It would be nice if one of our members could tell us more about
> that.
>
> tactilelady wrote:
>
> >John what are mime types?
Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig>
Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi
List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers
PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig
Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.
Other related posts:
