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[Chris Lilley]

On Tuesday, May 4, 2004, 1:17:35 AM, Steve wrote:

SD> I think mbox format that uses binary content-types is probably less
SD> interoperable than one that uses text only.

That amounts to an assertion that eol conversions and on-the-fly
encoding conversion generally do more good than harm. It may be true,
but it may not be.

Tests using an mbox that contains messages in a variety of encodings
(including some multibyte and code shifting encodings) would be needed
to determin interoperability in practice.

If conversion to a local eol convention is considered desirable, I
would rather this was done by the mbox content type handler rather
than bringing along the rest of the text/* baggage.


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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris at w3.org
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