Re: MIME-Version Header Field

Dave Crocker <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:19:20 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.beep
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 04:53 PM 9/23/2002 +0100, Eamon O'Tuathail wrote:
>However, the main practical purpose of this header is to tell a RFC
>(2)822 user agent that the message they receive is MIME or not - as BEEP
>messages are always MIME, it is not needed


however, leaving it out violates the specification.

information redundancy does not make things stop working.  violating a 
specification does.

d/


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