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From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: Mail digest and MIME headers
Date: 07 Feb 2001 00:04:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rjvgqnwgzm.fsf@ssv2.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yl4ry74e5j.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (Russ Allbery's message of "06 Feb 2001 14:53:12 -0800")

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> It's not strictly necessary, but it does say to other MUAs that you're
> guaranteeing that they can assume all of the standard defaults for the
> other MIME parameters, whereas if you leave off MIME-Version you're saying
> that the message may not comply with MIME and could be in an unknown
> character set.

Does this reasoning apply to nested messages, such as messages within
MIME digests?  

For a top-level message, I agree it is a good tradeoff, because
unknown headers are hidden by most agents, even those that are not
MIME aware.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-06 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-06 13:08 Per Abrahamsen
2001-02-06 14:09 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-02-06 22:41   ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-02-06 22:53     ` Russ Allbery
2001-02-06 23:04       ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
2001-02-07  0:45         ` Russ Allbery
2001-02-06 23:09     ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-02-06 23:16       ` Per Abrahamsen

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