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anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.comWed, 14 Dec 94 15:33:06 PST
> Probably because that is the direction mail is going. If you can't
> do it too bad, but don't expect everyone else to wait around for you
> to catch up. Time to move your mail into the early 90s and get a
> MIME-aware mail agent...
Ah, a refreshing sentiment ;)
There is an EXCELLENT article in this month's Scientific American
which touches upon this issue. "Ensuring the Longevity of Digital
Documents".
It mentions how a Shakespeare sonnet written four centuries ago is
still readable. Data stored/formatted in completly cutting edge ways
from a decade or two ago is in danger of becoming unreadable. (8"
floppy disks, paper tape, CDC 876 mag tapes anybody?)