At 8:39 AM -0800 11/9/98, Laurence Lundblade wrote:
I do think it would be nice to have a top level type that meant: this is
probably text you can look at and make sense of if you don't have an
application that is willing to display it for you. The MUA
implementations would then present the entity as an attachment or
similar, but offer to display it if the user wants.
This is approximately the behavior of text/not{plain,html,enriched}
nowadays, contrary to the spec. Maybe we should just give up and say this
is the correct behavior.