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- I think Ned (who I just added to the growing distribution list on this
- exchange!)'s argument was that formats such as Postscript and Gif have
- developed or are developing ways of specifying such things IN-band, that
- is, in the actual data stream itself rather than in an out-of-band
- location such as the MIME content-type header. Insofar as this is true,
- I think it makes much more sense NOT to further complicate matters by
- introducing a way to specify these matters out-of-band. In other words,
- including information in a place like the MIME Content-type header
- should only be done if there's no way for including the information in
- part of the actual data, that is, the MIME body part. I think that's
- the essential philosophy behind that choice, at any rate. -- Nathaniel
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