If MIME puts HTML under
"application" but "enriched" under "text", then the initial
part of the type has become meaningless.
Tim Berners-Lee
We went through all this on the MIME list almost two years ago. The
Doncha just hate how these things come back? ;-)
conclusion was that the initial part of the type is indeed meaningless.
The only interesting thing to do with MIME types is to treat each
<primary-type>/<secondary-type> pair as a single specific type.
I don't do that. I have one MUA which isn't capable
(for reasons beyond MIME) of processing things in parallel.
It treats *everything* of type "MULTIPART/" the same.
I for one would appreciate it if we could retain some sense in the
grouping of secondary types under appropriate primary types.
Bill
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Rick Troth <troth(_at_)rice(_dot_)edu>, Rice University, Information Systems