OPEN ISSUE: Standards Track

[Keith Moore]

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> > (ask yourself: why is it so easy for viruses to propagate by email?)
> 
> Because of buggy programs that execute code in email messages, which 
> has exactly zero to do with SMTP, POP or IMAP.  

It has a lot to do with the way MIME is implemented. 

Hint: there's a reason we didn't use filename suffixes as content-types
and expect operating systems to use the same dispatch tables as they
would do for local files.  There's also a reason we required a security
considerations section for content-type registration.