Re: HTML and MIME?

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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 93 22:01:48 MET DST
From: timbl (Tim Berners-Lee)
Message-id: <9304222001.AA05997@ nxoc01.cern.ch >
To: j-germuska@nwu.edu
Subject: Re: HTML and MIME?
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch

HTML and MIME relate as follows.  HTML is to be proposed as aMIME
text/html type.  This is not only a Good Thing as you note, it also
is essential as the full HTTP protocol send back a MIME message.
That is, it uses RFC822 fields for its headings including the
Content-type field.

Yes, it would be very nice to send HTML mail to people!
For more details, check out click _here_ to check out the
HTTP spec :-)

HTML news too.
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Tim