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In article <1993Jan10.150252.11230@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, 
  ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:

/ The number of programs that strip MIME headers is _not_ small.
/ ...

This suggestion will probably appall purists, but here goes:

We could always establish an interim convention whereby user agents
can be told to use the first few lines of the message body for MIME
info - as though they were an extension to the headers-proper.  
To keep things simple we could use a token to indicate that this
scheme is being followed, e.g. in Usenet it might look something 
like this:

  From: vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley)
  Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
  Subject: MIME in NEWS?
  Message-ID: <235_12617_726675863_3@xenitec>
  Date: 10 Jan 93 14:56:06 GMT
  Organization: XeniTec Consulting, Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA
  Lines: 24

  ###MIME headers follow###
  Content-Type: text/richtext
  Content-Id: <235_12617_726675863_4@xenitec>
  Mime-Version: 1.0
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
  
  Does anyone have patches for trn which will interface it to metamail?  Is
  ...

This is a gross hack but it would be of practical benefit to those 
people who are in the same position as Alasdair.

Martin  
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