Re: MIME's "Content-Disposition" Header

[Terry Crowley <[e-mail]>]

Ned,

You of all people should understand some of the compromises made in 
order to deal with the existing infrastructure and old versions of 
applications that took less than elegant approaches to some of these 
problems.  Sure, in a perfect world, and under configuration control, I 
generate

	multipart/mixed
		multipart/alternative
			text/plain
			application/x-beyondmail

		...other attachments...

But the fact is that there are several hundred thousand copies of our 
product out there that I need to be able to communicate with and those 
versions use the attachment name to indicate which attachment encodes 
our custom information.  I need to be compatible with those copies in 
an environment where I don't have control over the gateway.

Terry