Excerpts from ext.ietf-822: 16-Feb-93 Re: Text/Enhanced straw man
Nathaniel Borenstein(_at_)thu (684*)
I'm a little confused on the model here. If people type enhanced text
by hand, what will the Content-type say? Will people have to explicitly
tell their UA that "what I've typed is enhanced text"? Will the UA make
an intelligent guess, based on what the user typed? I'm not clear on
how this is expected to work operationally... -- Nathaniel
Good point, Nathaniel. We should be thinking more about user models.
I imagine that GNU Emacs mail mode, for instance, would by default
attach MIME headers to send a message as ``text/simplemail'', rather
than the user having to say so explicitly. A standard mode toggle
(Control-C something) would allow the user to toggle to ``text/plain''
or whatever other modes are useful. Use of MIME composition techniques
might also automatically change the type.
Bill