However, would it be reasonable to have inline parts as
part of multipart messages? You could use some flag to indicate that the
part should be positioned right after the previous EOL, not starting a
new line.
I suppose that if one wanted to do something with "content order" (I'm
not sure what happened with that thread) it would be quite natural to
attach this sort of thing to it, along with very precise language about
where the embedded part actually stopped and ended, possibly by adding
some special bracketing characters that would not be EOL sensitive.
E.g.,
Content-order: 3,delimiter=/
Content-type: ASCII
/The ancient symbol /
Content-order: 4, delimiter=/
Content-type= GIF
Content-encoding: HEX
/010.../
Whether it is worth the trouble and complexity is another question.
Clearly a lot of overhead to put in a single "character".
john
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