adem wrote:

>OK, here is something renegade and fundamentalist: how about having
>'MimeType' and 'ApplyCompression' attributes for each blob?
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It doesn't fly. A blob field "image" would likely contain jpegs, giffs,
tiffs, and pngs. Another field "documents" would likely contain raw
text, html, xml, Word, PDF, and (gulp) WordPerfect.