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... interoperability of life-bearing email,
this document defines a new MIME content-type, "matter-transport",
and for an initial subtype, "sentient-life-form". This subtype was
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... transport should not significantly complicate that effort, as it is
already necessary to specify gateway behavior for MIME types that
have no X.400 equivalents, and matter transport ...
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The user is cautioned against passing MIME transporter messages
through computers equipped with the NFS file system ...
... to outwait the statute of limitations by mailing themselves through
complex mail routes with long delays. (One supposes that they could
also look on the bright side, and consider MIME as a possible
approach to solving the long-standing problem of prison
overcrowding.)
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... The authors of this document may be reconstituted by feeding the
following data to an Internet-connected MIME reader:
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