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Dale Hagglund <rdh@best.com> writes:

> I'm curious where you find this in the RFCs?  I've been browsing RFCs
> 2045 and 2046, and I haven't noticed anything that obviously implies
> this, at least to me.

RFC2183.

> The only alternative I can think of is some sort of alternating
> background color between for alternating background parts, ie, white,
> light grey, white, light grey.  However, with this, I loose the
> ability to easily identify the part number for commands like `2 b'
> from the summary buffer.

But why would you want to `2 b' a part that's already displayed?

It's fun to `b' a multipart/alternative and see it cycle through all
the alternatives, but surely that novelty wears off after a while...

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