> 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
