On Tue 22 Jul 2003 01:31, Andi Payn posted as excerpted below:
> Finally, it's a bit strange to say, "... if you were not expecting a file
> of this type..." and never mention what type the file originally was.
> Couldn't MIME-defang say, "An attachment named 'foo' of type 'mime/type'
> was converted..."?

Think like certain apps (or users) from a certain closed OS..

"Type" is conveyed by file extension.  Therefore, since the original filename 
and extension is mentioned, so is the "type".  MIME-Type???  What's that??  
Text/Plain??  That's the format, not the file type.  The file types in 
question were of course "init" and "sysconfig"..  Were you expecting files of 
that type?  <g>

..  All according to the common parsing rules of this very common closed OS, 
of course..

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