Subj : Re^3:  Directly include binary data in messages
To   : Tim Schattkowsky
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Feb 24 2022 01:32 pm

Hi Tim,

On 2022-02-24 13:15:02, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 TS> It is my belief (in line with some of the points brought up recently),
 TS> that the fidonet infratstucture should be improved (also on the
 TS> software side) to

 TS> - make large messages (in the order of magnitude of up to a few MB) a
 TS> non-issue for most users,

 TS> - enable embedding of images and (small) binary data in messages in a
 TS> compatible way,

 TS> and later on

 TS> - enable private communication between endpoints (i.e., encrypted
 TS> authenticated netmail)

 TS> - maybe support (well-defined?) HTML mail (quite debateable) or the
 TS> like

This already exists. It's called email. ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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