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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
>   > Well, aren't you kinda asking for double Content-Types, in a way?  The 
>   > thing you got (application/x-gzip, or something) can first be
>   > unpacked, and then the contents of that can be something else (say,
>   > text/plain or whatever).  But there is no framework for doing that in
>   > MIME, and I think it would be a mistake to try to guess (or "guess")
>   > what the second-level (or third-level, etc) type of a part is.
> 
> Right.  But what if people send you application/x-gzip stuff?  It
> should at least be painlessly possible to gunzip it and save it to
> disk.

I would argue that it should just be saved with a '.gz' extension by
default.  That's what they _mailed_ you and explicitly marked the
attachment as being a gzip file.  You could | it to an external command if
you really want to save it raw.

Perhaps we need a way for per-content-type items in the popup menu?  That'd 
be kind of handy in general.  Could do the browse-url thing for text/html,
etc.

-Bill P.