Hi Thomas

Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 2:38:04 PM, you wrote:

TF> The internet was designed for plain-text emails only. MIME attachments
TF> (allowing HTML) was added much later and under much protest. Check it
TF> out on the internet.

The internet was not designed *for* email at all. The ARPANET, its predecessor,
was meant to be a US DoD network that could survive a nuclear attack. If you
mean that the initial conception did not involve MIME etc., then that's correct.
But claiming that it was designed specifically for plaintext email isn't
correct. It was SMTP that was designed with support for only 7-bit ASCII in
mind. Was that what you meant?

TF> It always amazes me that many people think the internet was invented
TF> by Outlook or AOL 6 or Al Gore...

Internet invented by outlook? I must meet this person :)

Gore, on the other hand, seems to have actively perpetuated that myth himself
during the time he stood for election.

Cheers,

-Vishal 


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