I tend to agree with Steve on this. I've long thought that compressed
C-T-E might be useful, but I feel like events have undermined this
suspicion. Text is generally too small to be not worth the bother of
compressing (nor the bother of phasing in a new C-T-E), and larger media
generally have built-in compression. So my guess at this point is that
phasing in this new C-T-E would be a huge amount of effort for a very
small efficiency gain.
Having said that, extending mailcap-like mechanisms to advertise
recipient capabilities is more generally useful, and if it were
*already* in place, phasing in the new C-T-E would be a lot less
painful. So I'd suggest focusing on the extension mechanisms first and
then, if still desired, *using* them for the new C-T-E deployment. --
Nathaniel
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