on 2/21/2003 4:25 PM Dan Kohn wrote:
Note that there's absolutely no reason why yEnc (perhaps with optional
gzip functionality added in) can't be specified as a new
Content-Transport-Encoding as an alternative to base64. Further, if
message/partial doesn't do the job, than a new application/news-partial
could be specified.
Unfortunately there are loads of issues that make this whole thing very
complex. Its been tackled at least a few times, with the result typically
being that everybody is too exhausted to continue discussing it.
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