Vernon Schryver wrote:
> The practice of sending both HTML and cleartext of supposedly the same
> message reflects very poorly on those who do it intentionally and on those
> who cause MUA's to trick others into doing it unintentionally. Never mind
> the security issues, but consider only the wastes of disk space, CPU
> processing, network bandwidth, and the inevitable differences between the
> two versions. If the two messages were the same, then there would be no
> excuse for sending both. If they differ, then one must be wrong, and
> sending both is worse than a waste.
So why does multipart/alternative exist?
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