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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > > That would be fine, I think.  Whether the new buffer is opened
> > > should depend on the content-disposition, shouldn't it?
> > 
> > Currently, I don't do anything with Content-Disposition.  Shouldn't
> > display of elements be up to the recipient, and not the sender?
> 
> The sender should be allowed to express a preference.  For example, a
> set of huge pictures attached to a message can be hazardous to insert
> in the buffer.  In this case, sender can ask the recipient not to
> inline it.  Or can't it?
> 
> I'm not any kind of expert on MIME, though.

  Content-disposition should be honored.  If someone mails me a word file
and I have a converter set up in my mailcap for showing it (or however we
might do such a thing), I might not want to have it shown inline anyway.

  Content-disposition is a good thing.

-Bill P.