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[Steve Dorner]

At 4:24 PM -0500 5/3/04, Eric A. Hall wrote:
>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.

"The whole world" is maybe a stretch (my MTA converts them to 
multipart/digest when sending), but certainly a widespread practice 
begs to be documented.

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

I'm unconvinced that they're not used with local line conventions on 
some platforms.  I happen to work on a product that does just that, 
though if I were the only one, I wouldn't worry about it much.