> MIME is a shitty workaround (badly) designed to cram non-text data into
> a text-based protocol.  Instead of using proper transfer protocols to
> transfer files, some morons decided to shove binary data into text-based
> messaging.  When the web crowd decided they, too, would like to shove
> unlikely things into a text based protocol, MIME was the natural answer.

And you see no contradiction that the seemingly obvious alternatives
just simply haven't gained any ground at all?

++L


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