We're getting a bit off-topic here, but in answer to the question, MIME has
the capability to supply compression, encoding, encryption, and content type.
Many email readers take the dumb way out and supply a generic content type as
a replacement for compression and content type, and let the user sort it
out.
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>On Tuesday, February 15, Peter Kennard wrote:
>>
>> Very yes. Though unix has extensionless files, the web and MIME are defacto
>> using suffixes for file type id.
>Ahh, so what does an "extension" of .ico stand for? What about .lsp, or
>even .asc? Extensions, while "nice" to use for certain things, are certainly
>not "standardized". Even the almighty MIME types are not all there... How
>do you tag a file.tar.gz then? Application/octet-stream covers a lot of very
>broad ground...
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