> Arachne does it "right", although I'm not even sure why image/gif
> is "right" and application/octet-stream is "wrong", since I can
> decode the attachment in either case.
Most mail clients, I think, pick a program to view an attachment by
the suffix of the filename you use for the attachment, that is,
MS word for ``doc'', Excel for ``xls'', an image viewer for ``gif'' and
so on.
In principle, mail clients can also use the MIME content type of
an attachment to select the reader. This might be more accurate since
users do not always name files with the correct suffix. For a mail
client that does this, ``octet-stream'' would be ``wrong'' for an
MS word file, because the mail client would probably just save the
file as an executable, instead of firing up MS word to read it.
Howard Schwartz
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