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> On May 29, 2020, at 17:45, solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> wrote:
> 
> The issue is that the history of the web demonstrates that the most
> powerful/inclusive interpretation of a spec tends to become the only
> acceptable implementation over a long enough timeline. 

To echo spc sentiment  [1]:

"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs 
which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
-- Zawinski's law of software envelopment

=>data:message/rfc822;base64, ...

We already can! ??

No drama though, it's all going to be good. Perhaps we will have learned 
something after ~30 years of web browsing. ??

[1] gemini://gemi.dev/gemini-mailing-list/messages/000975.gmi
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