Re: multipart/alternative extension from Keith Moore on 2001-05-07 (ietf-discuss@w3.org from May 2001)

From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 10:00:09 -0400
To: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
cc: IETF Applications Area general discussion list <discuss@apps.ietf.org>
Message-Id: <200105071400.KAA20998@astro.cs.utk.edu>

> Some MUAs show the first body part of multipart/mixed,
> and treat the others as attachments. 

those MUAs are broken, and I believe they are in the minority.
shall we adopt a strategy for deployment of new content types 
that depends on broken behavior of a few MUAs?

Keith

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