train on viruses? multipart/mixed

[Jef Poskanzer]

>>I really do think multipart/mixed ought to be deprecated net-wide.
>
>Jef, that's an absurd suggestion.  Email must contain the ability to
>send attachments

No, it really doesn't.

>and also contain the same message with different
>content-types (for plain text, html, phones, braille, and whatever
>else).

Actually my filter still allows this - it's multipart/alternative.
I never use it myself, but some folks don't know how to tell their
mailer to stop sending the same thing as both text and HTML.
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Jef

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