I was looking for a definition of the MIME text/plain subtype.
In MIME I found:
From RFC 1346 - MIME
7.1.2 The Text/plain subtype
The primary subtype of text is "plain". This indicates
plain (unformatted) text. The default Content-Type for
Internet mail, "text/plain; charset=us-ascii", describes
existing Internet practice, that is, it is the type of body
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
defined by RFC 822.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In RFC-822 I found:
From RFC 822
A general "memo" framework is used. That is, a message con-
sists of some information in a rigid format, followed by the main
part of the message, with a format that is not specified in this
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
document. The syntax of several fields of the rigidly-formated
^^^^^^^^
("headers") section is defined in this specification; some of
these fields must be included in all messages.
In comp.mail.mime, Steve Dorner, Qualcomm Inc said:
The MIME spec probably ought to say that RFC 821 defines existing Internet
practice so far as message bodies go. It's the one that specifies things
like 7 bits only and lines <1000 characters (pp 41-43).
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I'm confused!
Jim
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