On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, I wrote:
> > so it was uuencoded. And therefore, for once, LookOut was correct.
> but surely the headers should have declared it as multipart mime encoded
> and declared content boundary separators? .. or ar those optional ..and
> if so how to you tell the difference between plain text  

> begin 777 RE:
> and an attachment?

You don't.

Remember that uuencoding was devised in a time before MIME.

MBM

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