Re: [Pan-users] Re: Strange message reading error

[Per Hedeland]

Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>Per Hedeland <address@hidden> posted
>address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Thu,
>09 Aug 2007 10:20:18 +0200:
>
>>>Appears to me that the "body" of this post is really the first
>>>attachment of five, the last four being jpegs.
>> 
>> This is the way MIME works - the term "attachment" is really a misnomer
>> in the MIME world, MIME doesn't have attachments, it has multipart
>> messages such as this one (which is a different thing than the
>> "multiparts" we often talk about in the pan context) - in typical
>> "attachment" usage as shown here, the overall Content-Type is
>> multipart/mixed, with the first part being Content-Type text/plain and
>> containing the text that the user composed, and the other parts
>> "something else" (or they can be text/plain too if you "attached" text
>> files of course).
>
>[snip the rest for length, great tho it was]
>
>I think you actually did better on explaining that part of MIME this time 
>than I would have, particularly since I was contemplating a "short 
>form" (for me) version this time, covering only the content in question.  
>But you covered it so well there's no much left to say. =8^)
>
>See guys, I'm not the only one that can write such nice detailed 
>explanations!

And yet I tried to be brief.:-)

--Per Hedeland