On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Clark C. Evans wrote:

> If you are going to go this far (including content-length) may I
> just suggest using a MIME envelope?  This has several advantages:

This is a very good idea, but not this time, as it's too easy to get stuck
in the endless churn of very good ideas and alternatives.

The simple header format, without the null byte (taking it out is a good
idea, since we may have the possibility of an all-text file in that case),
is the way we're going to go. Maybe for version 2.0, but we've hit the
Good Enough point here.

                                        Dan

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