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- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:10:48 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.201921.17081@twg.com> david@twg.com (David Herron) writes:
- >I don't understand how you wouldn't be able to insert Content-Type:'s
- >into the header..?
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- If I wasn't using an SMTP mailer, for example (I use a Grey Book mailer)
- or if my mailer stripped out unrecognised headers for some reason.
-
- Surely this problem also comes up in connection with using MIME as a
- general file format, for use in (say) Gopher or FTP? Or has nobody
- thought of doing that?
-