> For the last several years, all I-Ds and RFCs publication announcements
> have included message/external-body attachments to provide for automated
> retrieval of the associated document. This causes very little
> distraction for those of us who prefer to use http or mailto URIs, while
> providing useful functionality for those using the external-body MIME
> type.
> However, this raises a question: does *anyone* use external-body in
> association with I-D announcements? External-body was specified in RFC
> 1341 in 1992, 2.5 years before URIs were first specified in RFC 1738. I
> suspect that the use of external-body has been almost wholly, if not
> completely, supplanted. Of MUAs, I think that at least mh supports the
> functionality, but is anyone using it?
I use it all the time. I use it mostly for I-D announcements, but I
also occasionally construct and send a message/external-body object myself.
Ned
