From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16954 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Coleman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Those MIME requirements Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:40:39 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199809112040.QAA19128@math.gatech.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155741 30854 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:15:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:15:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA19797 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:45:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAF13066; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:16:50 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:44:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA14064 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:44:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from math.gatech.edu (root@math.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA19730 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:43:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from math.gatech.edu (coleman@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA19128 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:40:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "11 Sep 1998 15:25:50 CDT." Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16954 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16954 > B> Content-disposition should be honored. If someone mails me a > B> word file and I have a converter set up in my mailcap for showing > B> it (or however we might do such a thing), I might not want to have > B> it shown inline anyway. > > OTOH, there are a number of mailers which don't have the concept of > showing things inline, so they always call things attachments. And I > think it's a terrible pain not to be able to view text files inline, > simply because the other end told me not to. Content-Disposition only specifies the default action that should be taken for an attachment. It's more of a hint than a rule. So if a part of a multipart is labeled "attachment" by the Content-Disposition header, the RFC says that the part should not be displayed unless further action is taken by the reader. It doesn't say it can't be displayed at all. A menu (or button) so that the reader can choose to view or save the attachment would be the right thing. Content-Disposition is a good thing. -- Richard Coleman coleman@math.gatech.edu