At 10.29 -0700 99-09-13, Laurence Lundblade wrote:
However if we ignore non-MIME mailers for arguments sake then
reversing the order would help with low memory implementations. The
client skips alternatives until one is found that can be handled
without having to "save" the previous part during the parse.
I have been wondering when the time would come when we could stop
having non-mime compatibility as a major goal. I would guess 98 % of
all mail users today use mime-compliant mailers. But there is the
rest. We have, at our university department, a teacher who refuses to
use anything else than some old non-MIME unix mailer. She says that
if she gets a message her mailer cannot handle, she will forward it
to another e-mail address at which she can read it using MIME. But
only as a last resort!
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