Subject: Re: Emailing the news From: josh@the-tech.mit.edu (Josh Hartmann) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 17:15:57 -0400

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At 5:17 PM 4/12/95, Stan Jones wrote:
>HTML documents are plain text and can be e-mailed. I don't know about
>Acrobat documents yet -- does anyone on the list have an answer to this?

PDF files are binary.

Caution, however: The GIF files you would send with HTML files are binary
as well.

>Another comment on HTML: If we send HTML documents as email via the
>Internet backbone, we can embed the Web links that everyone is familiar
>with and when people open such documents with a Web browser, they look and
>act pretty much like a page opened over the Web. The benefit to a newspaper
>publisher, if this works, is that he can presumably deliver thousands of
>copies by email during the night, rather than having to build a Web server
>that can handle, say, 100,000 hits between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. if, say,
>20,000 readers want an average of 5 pages apiece every morning.

1. What happens two minutes after something is mailed (presumably on
deadline) if an editor finds a mistake? If everything's on the server, the
editor can fix it and most of the people will see the corrected
information.

2. Typically you need to mail out a 'directory tree' of documents which are
linked together. How do you do that through email? I'm not certain.

-Josh

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