At 1998-10-23 09:47, Laurence Lundblade wrote:
So I don't think there's anything wrong with perusing and registering it
even as text/paragraph, but I would like to see text saying that it has
been found unsuitable for on-the-wire e-mail use and suggest format=flowed
instead.
I'm hesitant to suggest format=flowed while that still has draft status,
but otherwise I agree. Perhaps something like:
Owing to the behaviour of existing mail user agents, which
frequently treat even unrecognised subtypes of text as
attachments, text/paragraph SHOULD NOT be used as a main body
part in news or e-mail messages without prior indications of
suitability from the recipients.
...the idea being that at some point people may wish to include an
indication of the MIME-capability of their mail UA along with their
e-mail address and PGP public key...
In general, using MIME typing for lots of other applications, internal
representations, etc seems like a good idea to me.
This seems to be the way things are heading. I personally would like to
see MIME content-type headers used by file-systems, a system superior for
various reasons to the 'magic number', filename-extension and MacOS
4-byte code systems.
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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA