In <3A2B8E94-F90A-11D8-8B53-000A9571873E(_at_)guppylake(_dot_)com> Nathaniel
Borenstein <nsb(_at_)guppylake(_dot_)com> writes:
On Aug 24, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Charles Lindsey wrote:
We are talking about a new application type, which we presume some
people
will write new software to generate/accept (otherwise there is little
point in having the application type).
Do we really want people to write new software to *generate* mbox
format data? I was thinking of this as primarily a tool for allowing
software to label and read data that is only available in mbox format.
Is there any circumstance in which we would actually encourage its
generation?
I don't think we need new software to generante mboxen, but what I was
referring to was software/scripts to generate messages with
application/mbox for transporting mboxen already generated by whatever
means. Such software/script would naturally incorporate whatever
parameters has been defined for that application type.
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