From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/20293 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MIME handling for common MS Windows attachments? Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:25:01 +0100 (CET) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <13982.3149.341943.262207@amenardo.corpemea.baynetworks.com> References: <13980.49570.552112.474836@amenardo.corpemea.baynetworks.com> Reply-To: Robert Pluim NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158609 16969 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:03:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:03:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA07129 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:35:15 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAB20242; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:34:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:34:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA13755 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:34:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from lobster.baynetworks.com (ns3.BayNetworks.COM [192.32.253.3]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA07104 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:34:30 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mailhost.BayNetworks.COM ([132.245.135.84]) by lobster.baynetworks.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA10755 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:35:03 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mailhost.corpemea.BayNetworks.COM (mailhost.corpemea.baynetworks.com [141.251.211.40]) by mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA11114 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:30:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from vb-mail1.corpemea.BayNetworks.com (vb-mail1.corpemea.baynetworks.com [141.251.211.10]) by mailhost.corpemea.BayNetworks.COM (8.8.8+Sun/BNET-97/05/05-S) with ESMTP id QAA26495; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:32:47 +0100 (MET) for Original-Received: from amenardo.corpemea.baynetworks.com.corpemea.baynetworks.com ([141.251.211.122]) by vb-mail1.corpemea.BayNetworks.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.1 release 219 ID# 0-51848U14000L14000S0V35) with SMTP id com for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:32:46 +0100 X-Mailer: 21.2 "Artemis" XEmacs Lucid (beta8) (via feedmail 8 Q); VM 6.63 under 21.2 "Artemis" XEmacs Lucid (beta8) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: X-Attribution: Robert Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20293 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20293 >>>>> "Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer writes: Robbe> Hi, >>>>> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:54:10 +0100 (CET) Robert Pluim >>>>> said: Robert> How about defaulting to running "start" on Mickeysoft Robert> platforms, which will generally Do The Right Thing, and Robert> will allow users to change things without having to mess Robert> with mailcap files ? (but have mailcap be preferred, Robert> obviously). Robbe> I'd rather not have the default start things like word or Robbe> excel automatically. Doing it on a button-click is of Robbe> course ok. But to think of the security-cheese that most M$ Robbe> apps are (e.g. you can exec arbitrary commands from Robbe> excel)... I should have said "default to running start when the user clicks on a button". I wasn't advocating automatically starting the viewer (unless that's what the user wants, of course). (setq-default gnus-mime-allow-gaping-redmond-security-hole t) anyone? ;-) Robert