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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

> Metamail is a MIME unpacker which will spawn viewers for each segment
> appropriately.  Metamail doesn't even do a particularly good job of it,
> considering that it doesn't even inform the user of the existence of
> choices under multipart/alternative specs.

Maybe that `metamail' understands what MIME is a bit better than some of us.
It has been written by "the" (:-) Nathaniel Borenstein (sp?), this fellow
who designed MIME.  Maybe that `metamail' is not a masterpiece of programming
art, but it is nevertheless close enough to the original spirit of MIME.

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