Re: MIME implementation documentation

John C Klensin <klensin@mail1.reston.mci.net> Fri, 16 August 1996 17:46 UTC

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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 13:38:23 -0400 (EDT)
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From: John C Klensin <klensin@mail1.reston.mci.net>
To: Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com>
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Subject: Re: MIME implementation documentation
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On Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:43:55 -0500  Pete Resnick 
<presnick@qualcomm.com> wrote:
> Just to name names: I know that Cyberdog on the Macintosh and Microsoft's
> new mail and news offering (the latter for which I don't know the release
> status) both produce multipart/alternative by default (without "by-hand"
> user manipulation) for certain types of messages.

Well, that is considerable progress, although it would be nice 
to know
  -- what types of messages
and 
  -- what really acts on these on receipt, other than treating 
them as "mixed".

Note that we can't appeal to HTTP for validation of any of the 
multipart formats -- they quite aggressively don't use them.

   john

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