Re: Multipart/Alternative

From: B. Vermo (bv@bigblue.no)
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 13:03:37 +0100

In article <t3Nzys0KTv4C092yn@zetnet.co.uk>,
stefan.kapus@zetnet.co.uk (Stefan Kapusniak) wrote:
|
| Also complain to Netscape about their broken newsreader
| generating such malformed posts.

Netscape are generating 'malformed' web pages, i.e. not standard compliant,
but the use of Multipart/Alternative is entirely correct. It is the duty
of the receiving newsreader to select the 'best' of the supported versions.
Yarn should preferrably look this up in the mailcap file to see what it
can support, and display the appropriate version without user intervention.