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>>>>> wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry):

> Kim-Minh Kaplan <kmkaplan@western.fr> writes:
>> William M. Perry writes:
>> 
>> > I use application/emacs-lisp
>> 
>> Shouldn't this be application/x-emacs-lisp ?

> Probably, but Emacs/W3 has used this for at least 4 years, and
> nobody has complained. :)

Emacs lisp is a well documented format, and should be easy to register 
with IANA:
	http://www.isi.edu/cgi-bin/iana/mediatypes.pl