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- From: M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk ([*] M.T.Hamilton)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Subject: Re: Using MIME without extra mail headers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.001838.13304@lut.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 00:18:38 GMT
- References: <C0MoKr.5wn@poel.juice.or.jp> <1993Jan10.150252.11230@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Sender: comth@lut.ac.uk ([*] M.T.Hamilton)
- Organization: Dept of Computer Studies, Loughborough University, UK
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- In article <1993Jan10.150252.11230@infodev.cam.ac.uk>,
- ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
-
- / The number of programs that strip MIME headers is _not_ small.
- / ...
-
- This suggestion will probably appall purists, but here goes:
-
- We could always establish an interim convention whereby user agents
- can be told to use the first few lines of the message body for MIME
- info - as though they were an extension to the headers-proper.
- To keep things simple we could use a token to indicate that this
- scheme is being followed, e.g. in Usenet it might look something
- like this:
-
- From: vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Subject: MIME in NEWS?
- Message-ID: <235_12617_726675863_3@xenitec>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 14:56:06 GMT
- Organization: XeniTec Consulting, Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA
- Lines: 24
-
- ###MIME headers follow###
- Content-Type: text/richtext
- Content-Id: <235_12617_726675863_4@xenitec>
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
-
- Does anyone have patches for trn which will interface it to metamail? Is
- ...
-
- This is a gross hack but it would be of practical benefit to those
- people who are in the same position as Alasdair.
-
- Martin
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