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Matt McClure <matthew.mcclure.es.99@aya.yale.edu> writes:

> I would have had no idea there was an attachment if the text of the
> message hadn't referred to it.

IMHO, it's the sender's fault.  The mail was multipart/alternative,
which means that it's the same content, different renderings.  In this
case, it _wasn't_ the same content, so they should have used
multipart/mixed.


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