Probably just so that they can have their own product.
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> From: James McCarthy[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Subject: Has anyone seen the DIME spec
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> I just read a submission from a few Microsoft engineers for the
> encapsulation of multiple arbitrary messages into a single binary message
> attachment. The submission is called Direct Internet Message Encapsulation
> (DIME). I am trying to understand why they did not just use the ZIP
> encoding
> standard since everything that is in the DIME spec is already in place
> within a ZIP encoded file and there are hundreds of implementations of ZIP
> already in place.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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> Jim McCarthy
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> Symmetry Solutions, Inc. - Leading Web Services Development
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