Re: MIMED Digests

[William Wisner <wisner>]

The extent of the MIME encoding used in the Love-Hounds digest is this:
each digest is tagged with a MIME header that says "this single big message
is actually composed of many smaller messages, each of which is separated
by a row of dashes."  This is enough information for a suitable MIME-capable
mail reader to be able to autmomatically break the digest down into its
constituent messages.  However, since the digest really is just a series
of small messages separated by rows of dashes, any non-MIME mail reader can
treat the digest as a standard text message and it will be readable.

However: any given message sent to the list may itself be encoded in a MIME
format by the sender's mail software.  Such messages are sent to Love-Hounds
as-is, and will be added to the current digest in the same format.