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>>>>> "SB" == Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

>>>>> "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>:

Jochen Hayek, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:

    >>> On the other hand: have you ever received a `.doc' file, that was
    >>> not an MS Word file?  And if that would ever happen, I assume it
    >>> wouldn't even be base64 (or whatever) encoded, so what's the damage
    >>> letting `.doc' appear as `application/msword'.

    >> Sure.  People using WordPerfect end their files in .doc.  Also,
    >> anyone attaching any file in Pine will have their file auto-munged
    >> into Base64 whether it's plain text or binary.  Now, if this happens
    >> to be a plain text file that is name <something>.doc, you lose.

    SB> Another one is FrameMaker who also likes to use .doc.

Is this a school class, where proud pupils enumerate
the software packages, which let their files end in `.doc'?

The crucial point actually was, that a binary treated as "text/plain"
gets expanded *within* the text buffer,
whereas an "application/*" gets saved to a file.

So from my point of view (excuse my being rude)
we could also call it "application/bullshit".

I don't mind starting the external utility to load that `.doc' file
by hand.

I think this thread drifted too much into the usual anti-MS direction.
.