Re: Suggestion for minor interoperability advance

[Pete Gelbman <pete arraycomm com>]

>>>>> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, "Mo" == Mo McKinlay wrote:

  Mo> There should be a system (or campus?)-wide MIME database in
  Mo> /etc/somewhere, or /usr/share/somewhere, plus user-level config files in
  Mo> ~/.somewhere, allowing both administrative control and user tweaks. Doing
  Mo> one or the other but not both strikes me as being a bit silly. The key
  Mo> here, of course, is getting everything talking to the same format of
  Mo> config files..

I don't know much about these things but why re-invent the wheel? Aren't /etc/mime.types and $HOME/.mime.types that are used by Apache, Netscape, Exmh and many others a pretty good thing to use? 
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~pete