At 10:53 AM -0700 7/6/01, Blake Ramsdell wrote:
To tell you the truth, I've never liked smime-type, and it wasn't my doing.
I think that lgl put this in.
Well,we all agreed to it, but I do think it was Lawrence who proposed it.
If I had to take a stab at it, I would characterize it as being a shortcut
hint to present to the client, and if it is inaccurate, it should have no
effect on processing. So if you wanted to provide an icon to indicate the
message type, without tearing through the contents, this would be your boy.
Yup, that's what I remember about the reasoning.
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