On Tue, 14 Jun 1994 15:41:34 +0100 David Nessl <[log in to unmask]> said:
 
>So, please please allow MIME headers thru during SHORT HEADER processing
>-- it won't make already confusing MIME messages significantly more
>confusing to MIME-less recipients, and it is a lot more friendly to
>MIME-capable recipients.
 
It  will leave  the  MIME-less people  in  the cold  with  base64 and  QP
messages,  and generate  extra junk  for the  majority of  MIME-generated
messages  that simply  state the  MIME defaults  ("this is  a plain  text
message, in ASCII").  The correct thing to do is  to decode MIME messages
for non-MIME users. Simply ignoring  the problems of non-MIME users won't
make them go away.
 
  Eric