Re: Channel response serialization

Mostly a lurker and this is offtopic but couldn't resist this delicious 
bit of history.
If you look at the original error message sent by Paul, you'll see a 
MIME type(subtype?) "ms-tnef".
Microsoft created TNEF, Transport Neutral Encoding Format, in the days 
of yore when they were backing X.400 in Microsoft Mail
and this was their attempt at doing waht MIME did right.
When MIME ( the REAL "transport neutral encoding format" ) came along,
MS in all their wisodm created a MIME type "ms-tnef" !!!
The purpose of such a MIME type ?
Anyone who knows is long gone from the company
which is why it persists, I  am guessing.

Nitin Borwankar.

Chris Newman wrote:

> Let me guess -- you're running Microsoft Outlook?
>
> You might wish to ask your client vendor way it refused to display 
> certain plain text messages...
>
>                - Chris
>
> begin quotation by Paul Andrews on 2002/7/25 22:38 -0400:
>
>> Sorry Chris. Your messages appear with nop body and an attachment 
>> (called
>> something like 'quotation by Paul Andrews on 2002_7_25 12_02 
>> -0400_.dat ')
>> that is complete gibberish if I try and open it.
>>
>>>  -----Original Message-----
>>> From:     Chris Newman [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent:    Thursday, July 25, 2002 6:04 PM
>>> To:    Paul Andrews; Jered Floyd
>>> Cc:    [email protected]
>>> Subject:    RE: [BEEPwg] Channel response serialization
>>>
>>>  << File: quotation by Paul Andrews on 2002_7_25 12_02 -0400_.dat >>
>>
>
>
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