From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:12:55 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [TUHS] attachments: MIME and uuencode
Message-ID: <20170312221255.BFE3F18C099@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

    > From: Random832

    > I think he means the fact that MIME specifies the type of the main
    > message body (not just attachments), so you can have a message with *no*
    > text parts.

Right, that I could discern; what I couldn't get with an definitiveness was
_why_ that was particularly a problem.

(Another possibility, other than the one I previously gave, is perhaps that
there simply is no text part, which one can peruse, ignoring the rest?)

	 Noel