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[Eric A. Hall]

On 5/3/2004 4:12 PM, Steve Dorner wrote:

> At 3:58 PM -0500 5/3/04, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> 
>>As per RFC2048, I'm planning to propose an application/mbox media-type.
> 
> Hmmmmm.  We already have a type for a collection of messages 
> (multipart/digest).  Absent argument to the contrary, I'd rather 
> encourage the use of that than to register one particular local form.

"Encourage" is something I absolutely agree with.

In the meantime, take a look at ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf-mail-archive/ ...
The whole world (including the IETF) is already using mbox as the default
interchange format and its becoming more common. Let's give it a
media-type in recognition of the current reality, and so that the current
interchange system can be improved.

> I'm also a little concerned about the EOL issue you allude to.  I
> assume you mean to register these as LF delimitted, which will make
> them binary files, and perhaps more problematic for many users to
> deal with.

I want them to be binary so that the EOL conversion does not occur. The
problems start when conversion occurs.

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