From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19444 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kurt Swanson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Automatic part insertion: =?iso-8859-1?q?=E5=E4=F6?= and =?cn-gb-2312?b?s9TExMj7?= on the same line Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 12:49:04 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, Lund University, Sweden Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <6fww4awvy8.fsf@dna.lth.se> References: <6f67buzzff.fsf@dna.lth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157791 11612 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:49:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:49:51 +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 HAA24856 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 07:53:07 -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 GAA14371; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 06:51:09 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 02 Dec 1998 06:50:45 -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 GAA02831 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 06:50:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (sunsite.auc.dk [130.225.51.30]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA24818 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 07:50:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 1423 invoked by uid 509); 2 Dec 1998 12:49:37 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding User-Agent: Gnus/5.070059 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.59) Emacs/20.3 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.235.16.105 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 912602944 130.235.16.105 (Wed, 02 Dec 1998 13:49:04 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 13:49:04 MET DST Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 35 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19444 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19444 Russ Allbery writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: >> However, if someone (inadvertantly) mixed (*really* mixed) Chinese and >> Scandianvian (for instance, talking about two people who's names contain >> characters from two different charsets), then that might result in that >> someone (inadvertantly) sending out a really long and winding MIME >> message that might be annoying for the non-Gnus recipient to receive... >> Of course, MML might just ask the user whether to go ahead and multipart >> away or not... > "Warning: Your message contains 37 parts. Do you really want to send?" > User settable warning limit. That's what makes the most sense to me, just > like the warnings about lines over 80 columns. That sounds like the best solution - allows for experts to pass through, warns dummies, and (probably) easily incorporates into the existing structure of controls on message sending. > (And as an aside, I am *really* impressed at the new MIME support. So > impressed that this is literally converting me from a MIME-hater to rather > liking it, if it can do stuff this cool when well-programmed. It makes me > think that there really isn't anything that wrong with MIME, it's just > that all the existing implementations suck. Except, finally, one.) Hear, hear! I've even stopped saying "quoted-unreadable" and "mime-encrypted". Gnus is already, in my experience, the best the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display mail/news-reader supporting mime. -- © 1998 Kurt Swanson AB (ksw@dna.lth.se) .