[imp] alternative.gif - what is it?

[Joseph Brennan]

--On Thursday, March 21, 2002 16:30 -0600 Terry Davis <tdavis@approbation.org> wrote:

>> > actually, why would a user want to know that the message is of
>> > alternative type, hence the icon?

Normally you would not want to open the other part, since it is (should be)
the same message in a different format.  That's different from other kinds
of multipart message.

Joseph Brennan                           postmaster@columbia.edu
Academic Technologies Group, Academic Information Systems (AcIS)