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[Chris Lilley]

On Monday, May 3, 2004, 11:12:15 PM, Steve wrote:

SD> 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.

SD> Hmmmmm.  We already have a type for a collection of messages 
SD> (multipart/digest).  Absent argument to the contrary, I'd rather 
SD> encourage the use of that than to register one particular local form.

Does mbox format follow the syntactic constraints of a digest?

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

I think it just means that they transfer intact.


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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris at w3.org
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