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>>>>> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>:

> I believe guessing is the thing to do.  Unless the message is from a
> Mac or BeOS user, the content-type is almost always the sending
> agents best guess based on file extension, and
> "application/octet-stream" means that the sending agent couldn't
> guess anything.

In the case of one major offender, MS Outlook and Outlook Express,
"wouldn't" is a better description than "couldn't".