> For the last several years, all I-Ds and RFCs publication announcements > have included message/external-body attachments to provide for automated > retrieval of the associated document. This causes very little > distraction for those of us who prefer to use http or mailto URIs, while > providing useful functionality for those using the external-body MIME > type. > However, this raises a question: does *anyone* use external-body in > association with I-D announcements? External-body was specified in RFC > 1341 in 1992, 2.5 years before URIs were first specified in RFC 1738. I > suspect that the use of external-body has been almost wholly, if not > completely, supplanted. Of MUAs, I think that at least mh supports the > functionality, but is anyone using it? I use it all the time. I use it mostly for I-D announcements, but I also occasionally construct and send a message/external-body object myself. Ned