In article , Wolf K
wrote:

[...] The internet works because the necessary data for routing the
data packets are inside the data packet, not external. That principle
should apply to all forms of data. Including programs, but that's a
another issue. mime headers say otherwise.
I don't see the relevance of your remark.

you mangled the quoting and you don't understand the issues.

AIUI, each data packet includes an ID to ensure that the intended
recipient computer can snag it from the data stream, and assemble the
packets in correct order, including the MIME header at the start of the
data. If you want to quibble about whether the ID data is inside the
packet or not, go ahead, quibble. Anything to keep you happy.

the mime headers are *not* part of the actual data. they *describe* the
data that is sent.

Dear, dear, tsk, tsk, more misreading. But then I knew you would.

there's no misreading whatsoever.

the mime headers describe the data that follows. that's why they're
called headers.

Even MIME headers are sent as data packets. Everything that's sent over
the internet is sent as data packets. It's the only way to do it.
Otherwise everyone would receive everything. Which would be a humongous
mess, which would take several lifetimes of the universe to sort out.

true, but completely irrelevant.

Have a nice quibbly, nit-picky day.

you too.