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- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.123329.16748@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:33:29 GMT
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- In article <gfIR8H600WBw8UW0Na@andrew.cmu.edu> John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@CMU.EDU> writes:
- >M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk ([*] M.T.Hamilton) writes:
- >> This is a gross hack but it would be of practical benefit to those
- >> people who are in the same position as Alasdair.
- >
- >No, it will not be of benefit to such people, at least not in the long
- >term. Such a kludge would do two things:
- >
- >1) Remove the incentive to get the broken gateways fixed. Once
- >established, such an "interim" convention would never go away.
-
- If the problem were only about gateways, it would be more easily fixable.
- But it is not, it's about domains. What is a gateway supposed to do to a
- MIME message destined for a domain that does not support the inclusion
- of MIME headers in the "header part" (something well-defined in RFC 822
- but by no means universal) of messages? Perhaps people with limited
- experience of heterogenous mail domains should ponder this question before
- leaping in with the suggestion that it's all about gateways.
-