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Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> >>>>> "B" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:
> 
> 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.

  Nothing says there can't be a 'show inline' keybinding active in the
button that shows the attachments, and a matching menu item in the
context-sensitive menu.

-bill p.