Re: Syntax validation of articles by injecting agents

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <7Ey9XHElGzQLFAQU@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Richard Clayton <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>In message <KvrvuC.F57@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Charles Lindsey
><chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>>But I don't think RFC 2049 ever intended to imply that MIME-Version was
>>needed for a message that did not actually use any of the MIME features.

>Hardly on topic for this list, but yes that's exactly what it means, and
>what it was intended to mean.  It's no big deal for a client to generate
>the header field, so it's hardly onerous!  (see this message for an
>example of a compliant client)

Then how do you account for the option of not including in in RFC 2047?

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