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- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.193641.9381@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- References: <1993Jan7.191810.1857@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <wBk7wB2w165w@blues.kk.sub.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:36:41 GMT
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- In article <wBk7wB2w165w@blues.kk.sub.org> kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis) writes:
- >What's your problem changing header lines? Maybe we can help you to
- >do this somehow.
-
- My problem is
- (a) that half the time my mail domain is neither RFC 822 nor X.400,
- and does not allow arbitrary header fields;
- (b) that I seem to be unique in thinking that MIME could be a general
- solution for all kinds of file structuring applications, such as
- those currently handled by ODA, SGML and various ad hoc encodings,
- or by context, or by making guesses based on file content or file
- name, in applications where the concept of "headers" is not present.
- For example I see no reason why program source code should not use
- the MIME tagging mechanism to indicate which language it is in, and
- cause the appropriate compiler to be invoked on its content.
-