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>>>>> "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.

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