Re: [ietf-822] message/partial - is it still a thing?

[Richard Clayton <[e-mail]>]

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In message <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] writes

>Does any software out there still do message/partial?

mine does this just fine ... It's called Turnpike, but it's no longer
made available to new users -- it does both generating and reassembly on
receipt

>Is anything else out there able to do it, or is it time to heave it over the 
>side?

it was never widely possible to interwork with it and these days people
mail around multi-megabyte presentations without much difficulty (above
20MB you just don't reliably use email any more)

>(Probably need to double-check 'external-body' support too, but that's a 
>different
>kettle of fish...)

Turnpike supports doing a fetch but cannot generate such emails ... the
only place I have ever seen this used is in IETF emails reporting the
issuing of RFCs or I-Ds ... and they seem to have stopped doing this
some years back

>And if it's time to heave it over the side, should an RFC deprecating or moving
>it to 'Historic' be done?

I doubt anyone would implement either today, but making them Historic
would clarify that

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richard                                                   Richard Clayton

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary 
Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755

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