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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> > text/x-patch would perhaps be better?  That would mean that they are
> > human-readable, but not plain.
> 
> Probably.  Yes.

I'm just off for bed, but does the MIME RFC's say anything in
particular about doing stuff like text/x-patch?  I know that it's
common to do application/x-whatever, but I don't really recall seeing
many x-whatevers as subtypes of the text type...

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