From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19459 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Coleman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Automatic part insertion: åäö and ÔÄû on the same line Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 12:55:55 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199812021755.MAA23015@math.gatech.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157805 11713 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:50:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:50:05 +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 MAA01176 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:56:56 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA15344; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:55:22 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 02 Dec 1998 11:55:13 -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 LAA06876 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:55:06 -0600 (CST) 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 MAA01130 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:54:57 -0500 (EST) 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 MAA23015 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:55:55 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Message from Hrvoje Niksic of "02 Dec 1998 18:30:48 +0100." Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 20 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19459 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19459 > > I'm not really a MIME lover, I find it a bit oldish already, and > > there are limitations to it. > > Yup. I wish there were a clean way to say that a MIME part is > gzipped, a la HTTP's `Content-Transfer' or `Content-Encoding'. This has been discussed many times on comp.mail.mime. There have been several proposals made, but there is little chance that something like this will be adopted soon, since: 1. At this point, it would be virtually impossible to add another Content-Transfer-Encoding type. It would break too many existing readers. 2. Most MIME types that are very large (image/jpeg, video/mpeg, etc., already have their own internal compression). -- Richard Coleman coleman@math.gatech.edu