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[Martin Duerst]

At 15:33 04/05/03 -0700, ned.freed at mrochek.com wrote:

> > On 5/3/2004 5:15 PM, ned.freed at mrochek.com wrote:

> > That means it doesn't have to be application/* anymore. Would it be more
> > useful in text/*?
>
>The issue with putting it under text is "what charset is this exactly?" I 
>would
>be willing to ignore the issue but others may not be.

It would be a very bad idea to ignore this. It would work
by accident in some cases (mainly only US-ASCII) and would
not work in some other cases (anything with actual 8-bit
content).

Maybe what could work would be to label it as 'unknown-8bit'
(sorry, not online, so I don't know the exact label,
but I know there is such a thing). But we would have
to examine that carefully, both in terms of definition
as well as in terms of what actual implementations do.
For example, is the default for an unknown charset
US-ASCII, or is that only for an unknown type with
no charset?


>I can certainly live with 7bit/8bit under application.

What about binary? How do mailboxes on different systems
store messages that came over as binary?


Regards,    Martin.