usefor-article-08 August 2002
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6.21.2.4. Multipart types
The Content-Types "multipart/mixed", "multipart/parallel" and
"multipart/signed" may be used freely in news articles. However,
except where policy or custom so allows, the Content-Type:
"multipart/alternative" SHOULD NOT be used, on account of the extra
bandwidth consumed and the difficulty of quoting in followups, but
reading agents MUST accept it.
The Content-Type: "multipart/digest" is commended for any article
composed of multiple messages more conveniently viewed as separate
entities, thus enabling reading agents to move rapidly between them.
The "boundary" should be composed of 28 hyphens (US-ASCII 45) (which
makes each boundary delimiter 30 hyphens, or 32 for the final one) so
as to enable reading agents which currently support the digest usage
described in [RFC 1153] to continue to operate correctly.
NOTE: The various recommendations given above regarding the
usage of particular Content-Types apply also to the individual
parts of these multiparts.
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