* A (very short) independent opinion of Gnus MIME
@ 1999-07-05 18:20 François Pinard
1999-07-05 18:15 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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From: François Pinard @ 1999-07-05 18:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi, people. This one made me smile, and I decided to share it with you all.
A mailing list recently rejected One of my messages because it was
multipart/mixed. The list maintainer asked me to use only plain text when
I use the list. I replied (among other things):
> I perceive your criteria as pretty severe, as my message was only plain
> text. Using MIME headers does not necessarily spoil a message to the
> extent of a reject.
The nice thing is the reply from the list maintainer:
> The problem is that my current software isn't smart enough to tell
> modestly messy MIME like yours from really awful mime like HTML and base64.
I much like this "modestly messy" to quality Gnus MIME works. Maybe Lars
could start use it as a kind of trademark in Gnus descriptions? :-)
--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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* Re: A (very short) independent opinion of Gnus MIME
1999-07-05 18:20 A (very short) independent opinion of Gnus MIME François Pinard
@ 1999-07-05 18:15 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-07-05 22:14 ` Michael Harnois
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From: Hrvoje Niksic @ 1999-07-05 18:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> The nice thing is the reply from the list maintainer:
>
> > The problem is that my current software isn't smart enough to tell
> > modestly messy MIME like yours from really awful mime like HTML and base64.
>
> I much like this "modestly messy" to quality Gnus MIME works. Maybe
> Lars could start use it as a kind of trademark in Gnus descriptions?
> :-)
Let me guess: the software in use was Listar? Today I got this mail
from a friend of mine who happens to be a Listar groupie:
Bok,
Cuj, ne kuzim se do kraja u MIME and stuff... Uglavnom, ovo je bilo u
changelogu od listara. El to u redu ako je i tako, ili to gnusi krivo
rade?
-- Rewrote another portion of the multipart handler to allow for the
fact that Gnus allows you to have the first MIME attachment have
no content-type and expects you to assume it's text/plain. Fooie!
(The Croatian part says: "Hi! I am not really into MIME and stuff...
Anyway, this was in listar's changelog. Is that OK, or is Gnus doing
something wrong?")
Someone hasn't read rfc2046!
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1999-07-05 18:15 ` Hrvoje Niksic
@ 1999-07-05 22:14 ` Michael Harnois
1999-07-06 4:26 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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From: Michael Harnois @ 1999-07-05 22:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
On 05 Jul 1999 20:15:21 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> said:
> Someone hasn't read rfc2046!
This is news, eh?
--
Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA
mharnois@willinet.net aa0bt@aa0bt.ampr.org
The greatest disloyalty one can offer to great pioneers is
to refuse to move an inch from where they stood.
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1999-07-05 22:14 ` Michael Harnois
@ 1999-07-06 4:26 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-07-06 4:58 ` Michael Harnois
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From: Hrvoje Niksic @ 1999-07-06 4:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Michael Harnois <mharnois@willinet.net> writes:
> On 05 Jul 1999 20:15:21 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> said:
>
> > Someone hasn't read rfc2046!
>
> This is news, eh?
Huh?
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* Re: A (very short) independent opinion of Gnus MIME
1999-07-06 4:26 ` Hrvoje Niksic
@ 1999-07-06 4:58 ` Michael Harnois
1999-07-06 15:15 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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From: Michael Harnois @ 1999-07-06 4:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
On 06 Jul 1999 06:26:37 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> said:
> Michael Harnois <mharnois@willinet.net> writes:
>> On 05 Jul 1999 20:15:21 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
>> said:
>>
>> > Someone hasn't read rfc2046!
>>
>> This is news, eh?
> Huh?
I meant, there seem to be lots of software writers out there who
haven't read the standards, so it's not a surprise.
--
Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA
mharnois@willinet.net aa0bt@aa0bt.ampr.org
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
-- George Herbert
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