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On Feb 24, 1999, Chris Tessone <tessone@fnal.gov> wrote:

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

MIME messages *must* be forwarded as MIME, otherwise the MIME
structure is lost forever, and the message becomes mostly useless.
Only non-MIME messages could be forwarded with the old style without
loss of contents.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org,computer.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Instituto de Computação, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil