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Also known as: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, the standard that lets a message declare content types, character sets, and transfer encodings, and carry several parts in one body. Usenet articles inherit MIME from mail, so headers like Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding appear on posts. Binary groups largely ignored it in favor of yEnc, which sits in the article body without MIME structure and costs far less overhead.
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