- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:18:35 -0500
- To: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
- cc: discuss@apps.ietf.org, langtrans@salut.nu
> When the MIME standard was introduced, the handling by > present mail was central in the design of mail. yes, to a point. In particular, MIME was designed to allow plain-text portions of MIME messages to be readable by existing UAs that could read plain-text RFC 822 messages. This also influenced the default behavior of multipart/alternative, in order to allow a plain-text alternative to be viewable on an RFC 822 UA without the recipient having to skip over several screenfuls of base64-encoded material. But MIME didn't attempt to provide new features in existing user agents.
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