MIME Attachments Are 20 Years Old Today 82
judgecorp writes "MIME email attachments have been around for 20 years, and we now send a trillion every day. The mountains of emails in corporate archives now contain vital information, says MIME inventor Nathaniel Borenstein, which can be mined to expose conspiracies and make businesses more efficient. He also says a one-penny tax on attachments would make him as rich as Germany — if it weren't for the fact that such a charge would have killed MIME."
Another interesting interview. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Who is this we? (Score:4, Informative)
Most of the mail that is sent has at least 1 mime type, like text/html and a lot of times it also has a text/plain
These too are "attachments", the user interface might not show it that way but technically they are the same as any other attachment.
Re:20 years, eh? No more excuses (Score:4, Informative)
A MIME-formatted mailing list digest would be a file encapsulating many emails, in whatever format those emails were sent in.
Think of "saving" many emails from your email program, then attaching them to a new message, and sending that to someone.
Something like this: http://pastebin.com/uJ6K6ias [pastebin.com] (KMail shows it correctly, GMail doesn't, I don't know what the problem is)
Re:Marcel Marcaux invented MIME, everyone knows th (Score:3, Informative)
*sigh* http://lmgtfy.com/?q=marcel+marceau
Also,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mime
Yeah, I know it was a joke, but still...
Re:Who is this we? (Score:5, Informative)
The author didn't say that a trillion emails were sent everyday, he said MIME was used a trillion times everyday. MIME is also used as part of http.