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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Because leaving out the Content-Type header for messages with UTF-8
> content in the body cause problems for pre-standard clients and has no
> real advantages.

In particular since many hierarchies have already a declared a charset
to be the default if no MIME headers are present.  Unfortunately,
USEFOR is completely ignoring this issue and fails to mention that
reading agents need hierarchy-specific charset defaults.