Re: LYNX-DEV Mime type support.

[Alan Cox]

> Perhaps news rather than mail?  Brad Templeton, for instance, has been
> pushing for some sort of 'html-like' mark-up, in some very minimal
> format, perhaps included as part of the headers.  In theory, it would
> be invisible to readers that don't use it.  The idea generated vast
> quantities of heat, and maybe even a little light, on
> news.software.readers a few months ago.

Netscape and other browsers already "do the right thing" when given a
Content-type: text/html in a news article header. Thats been used on a couple
of groups to mass mail javascript bombs to people

Alan

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