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Hi,

>>>>> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:30:39 -0600
>>>>> Chris Tessone <tessone@fnal.gov> said:

 Chris> I'm still not even clear on why forwarding mail messages (much
 Chris> less news posts) as MIME is even advantagous.

Because in the ideal case where the receing MUA also handles MIME
properly, the original (and only that) can be extracted automatically.
For old style forwards you'd have to rely on heuristics.

Granted that the MIME forwards are somewhat uglier when viewed in
non-MIME-aware readers.

	Robbe

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