FYI, the fact that SHORTHDR strips MIME headers is the reason why
the default was changed to FULLHDR in 1995 (1.8b).  It's also been
discussed on these lists in the past, if I am not seriously mistaken.

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:09:18 -0700 Adam Audette said:
>Just to keep the list updated with our progress (and failures)...
>
>We were having problems with HTML in certain clients. Namely,
>Outlook 2000 wasn't rendering the code and was just showing the
>source.
>
>Earlier we had QUIET SET everyone on our lists to SHORTHDR for
>administrative reasons. We had also added this as a Default-Option
>in the header.
>
>Outlook requires normal long style headers to display HTML
>correctly.
>
>Moral of the story: If you are going to be distributing HTML to
>your lists, make sure you have standard headers set.
>
>thanks,
>Adam
>
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