Re: MIME-Version Header Field

Marshall Rose <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:00:07 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.beep
Organization Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> however, leaving it out violates the specification.
> 
> information redundancy does not make things stop working.  violating a 
> specification does.

then there's the "be liberal in what you expect and conservative in what you generate" thing. conservatisms says you should always send it. liberalism says you should never care whether you receive it...

/mtr

ps: it's easy enough for me to add the one line to my implementation to generate it. i don't think i'm going to be modifying the mime package that i'm using to actually require it though...

/mtr