On Monday, May 3, 2004, 11:12:15 PM, Steve wrote: SD> At 3:58 PM -0500 5/3/04, Eric A. Hall wrote:

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As per RFC2048, I'm planning to propose an application/mbox media-type.

SD> Hmmmmm. We already have a type for a collection of messages SD> (multipart/digest). Absent argument to the contrary, I'd rather SD> encourage the use of that than to register one particular local form. Does mbox format follow the syntactic constraints of a digest? SD> I'm also a little concerned about the EOL issue you allude to. I SD> assume you mean to register these as LF delimitted, which will make SD> them binary files, and perhaps more problematic for many users to SD> deal with. I think it just means that they transfer intact. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group