Re: A spec for showing language in MIME headers

Nathaniel Borenstein (nsb@thumper.bellcore.com)
Fri, 5 Nov 1993 06:42:18 -0500 (EST)

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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 06:42:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@thumper.bellcore.com>
To: "Harald T. Alvestrand" <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>,
Subject: Re: A spec for showing language in MIME headers
In-Reply-To: <9311041635.AA05014@www3.cern.ch>

Excerpts from mail: 4-Nov-93 Re: A spec for showing lang.. Tim
Berners-Lee@www3.cer (1393)

> Can I ask why the "Content-"?

Probably to make it clear that it applies to body-parts. In general,
the only header fields that apply to MIME body parts (as opposed to a
top-level message or an encapsulated message) are the Content-* ones.
-- NB