On 2003-01-22 14:30:48 -0500, Michael Young wrote:
This only seems useful if you convince *forward-looking* user
agents to adopt it, for the benefit of those using naive user
agents. That seems unlikely, as many of them have picked up on
PGP/MIME, and would view this as a step backwards. But I'm happy
for you to write it up.
Maybe I should explain the rationale somewhat more. First of all,
with mutt, we generally try to parse things as late as possible --
scanning text/plain for signs of encrypted or signed material is an
action which explicitly has to be triggered by the user. From that
point of view, having a separate content type is certainly the thing
to do.
On the other hand, we had lots of complaints when we were using an
application/ content type for inline PGP messages (from those who
insisted in sending and receiving inline messages). So we were
looking for a way to generate inline messages which can (1) be
handled by users with pgp-agnostic user agents, and (2) be
recognized as PGP-messages early in the parsing process. A MIME
parameter for text/plain looked like an easy way to do this.
On 2003-01-22 13:29:07 -0800, ned(_dot_)freed(_at_)mrochek(_dot_)com wrote:
I never suggested any such thing. What I suggest was a different
subtype of text.
Thanks for that suggestion. Will look into it.
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Thomas Roessler <roessler(_at_)does-not-exist(_dot_)org>