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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime,alt.security.pgp
- Subject: Re: pgp headers for MIME
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 12:55:08 -0500
- Organization: Mount Holyoke College
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- In article <C18C4r.6K8@wizzy.com> andyr@wizzy.com (Andy Rabagliati) writes:
- >Has anyone been working on a pgp interface for MIME ?
- >[...]
- >In correspondence with Tobias Weingartner <weingart@inf.ethz.ch> he
- >suggests
- >[...]
- >TW> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
- >TW> Content-transfer-encoding: X-PGP-{VERSION}
- >TW>
- >TW> Where {VERSION} would be: 2.0, 2.1, etc...
-
- No! You should use an application sub-type... that way you're
- MIME conformant. If you define a new transfer encoding, the
- message is NOT A MIME MESSAGE.
-
- Sigh... why do people always think that standards need to be
- improved upon?
- --
- Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
- Northampton, MA, USA
-