Re: MIME compression mechanism

Excerpts from junk.info-mime: 14-Oct-94 Re: MIME compression mechanism
Tom Limoncelli(_at_)big(_dot_)att(_dot_)c (1241*)

> P.S.  Is there a mailer that tries to base64, quoted-printable, etc. etc.
> looking for the best way to send something or do they still all require
> the user to select the encoding?
The ones I wrote generally use heuristics based on the first few lines
of text.  Such heuristics are very easy and nearly always work.