As usual, Ned has stated the case more clearly than I managed to.
Thanks, Ned.
Excerpts from mail: 25-Oct-93 RE: yet another way to indi.. Ned
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The two major
proposals I see being affected are multipart/appledouble and
multipart/pem.)
Don't forget multipart/enabled-mail.
Nor does multipart/header-set offer any advantage over simply defining
multipart/whatever. I'm sorry, but the added semantics of "these things
are related somehow" don't impress either me or the gateways I write. I
don't know how to deal with such nebulous semantics meaningfully.
Note also that if you see multipart/foobar, it's probably safe to assume
that the parts are related somehow, so it can be argued that there are
no added semantics anyway.
Keith's was the first proposal of this kind that had any appeal to me at
all, but I'm now back where I was, and where Ned is -- seeing virtually
no advantage to these proposals, and a considerable downside. -- NB