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>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>:

>>>>> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>:
>> After pGnus is released, I think RFC 2646 support would be a good
>> thing to work on.  It solves some of the worst shortcommings of
>> text/plain in a backward compatible way.

>         http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt

> Title: The Text/Plain Format Parameter

Of course one problem with this solution is that offenders like eg. MS 
Outlook and OE will never implement it, because it would break with
the MS policy of creating subtle and some not so subtle annoyances in
other programs that tries to interoperate with them.

Not to speak of the legacy MUAs which will just keep on sending broken 
messages.