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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 19:20:43 GMT
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- From: "Daniel C. Newman" <DAN@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Subject: RE: two minor points
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- > I hate to sound retrograde, but there are probably some sites that would
- > prefer non-multipart notices. Many people here won't have MIME-speaking
- > UAs in the near future. Novice users looking at these things sometimes
- > despair before noticing that they contain readable information!
-
- Well, the use of multipart messages for such bounce notices is
- the direction being taken by the various concerns trying to standardize
- the format of bounces and other error notifications. So, it is safe to
- assume that everyone will be seeing more of these (multipart error messages)
- in the future.
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- Dan
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