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From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@thumper.bellcore.com>
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Subject: Re: a MIME-Version misfeature
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I have no problem with changing the BNF to permit the period, as Mark
suggests.   However, I disagree violently with the following comment:

Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 23-Dec-91 a MIME-Version misfeature
Mark Crispin@cac.washing (429*)

> All in all, it's starting to look like MIME-Version is not really all that
> well thought out and is in danger of being superfluous baggage.

Some kind of version number is, in my opinion, totally vital -- getting
rid of MIME-Version without some similar versioning mechanism to replace
it would be, for me, a real show-stopper.

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I have no problem with changing the BNF to permit the period, as Mark 
suggests.   However, I disagree violently with the following 
comment:<nl><nl><excerptedcaption>Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 23-Dec-91 a 
MIME-Version misfeature Mark Crispin@cac.washing 
(429*)</excerptedcaption><nl><nl><quotation>All in all, it's starting to look 
like MIME-Version is not really all that<nl></quotation><quotation>well 
thought out and is in danger of being superfluous 
baggage.<nl></quotation><nl>Some kind of version number is, in my opinion, 
totally vital -- getting rid of MIME-Version without some similar versioning 
mechanism to replace it would be, for me, a real show-stopper.<nl><nl>By the 
way, this message is being sent by an experimental version of Andrew I'm 
playing with.  I'd be interested in any comments you have on its formatting, 
etc.  -- Nathaniel<nl>\

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I have no problem with changing the BNF to permit the period, as Mark 
suggests.   However, I disagree violently with the following comment:


\excerptedcaption{Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 23-Dec-91 a MIME-Version 
misfeature Mark Crispin@cac.washing (429*)}


\quotation{All in all, it's starting to look like MIME-Version is not really 
all that

}\quotation{well thought out and is in danger of being superfluous baggage.

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Some kind of version number is, in my opinion, totally vital -- getting rid of 
MIME-Version without some similar versioning mechanism to replace it would be, 
for me, a real show-stopper.


By the way, this message is being sent by an experimental version of Andrew 
I'm playing with.  I'd be interested in any comments you have on its 
formatting, etc.  -- Nathaniel

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