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Re: Syntax validation of articles by injecting agents

"Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> Thu, 07 January 2010 12:13 UTC

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In <FD8718C15E1440E993AEFBF849934D82@Iulius> =?Windows-1252?Q?Julien_=C9LIE?= <julien@trigofacile.com> writes:

>If not, see Section 4 of RFC 2045:

>   Therefore, this document defines a new header field, "MIME-Version",
>   which is to be used to declare the version of the Internet message
>   body format standard in use.

>   Messages composed in accordance with this document MUST include such
>   a header field, with the following verbatim text:

>     MIME-Version: 1.0

>   The presence of this header field is an assertion that the message
>   has been composed in compliance with this document.

Well that implies, to me, that if the message contains nothing that
purports to be "composed in compliance with this document", then there is
no obligation to inlcude the MIME-Version.

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