Re: lynx-dev Lynx vs. metamail

[Al Gilman]

to follow up on what Larry W. Virden said:
> 
> Many years ago (in fact, before the Web!), the only basic standards for
> email had to do with the headers of the messages.  The contents could be
> any format.  This caused a lot of grief when trying to figure out what
> was inside the message.  Numerous folk tried attachment type formats.
> But no one had documented it.  Then a gentleman whose name I seem to
> recall was Nathaniel Berstein or something close to that conceived of
...

Borenstein.

Good discussion.

For More Information see: RFC 1521.

Al