Re: default mime for attaching files

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
> By default, Gnus uses the "inline" disposition for an attachment of
> which the MIME type is text/* except text/rtf[1].  So, the reason
> seems to be that the text/* MIME type is specified in your system
> for *.csv files.  You know how to customize it already. ;-)

Actually I've always thought that this behavior of Gnus was sort of dumb
-- I don't think it really makes sense to inline random text/ sub-types.
Glancing through the list of text/ sub-types in /etc/mime.types, most
look like the sort of thing I wouldn't want inline; in practice I also
find that I usually have to override the default (the one which annoys
most often is text/x-diff).

Instead I think Gnus should default to "attach", and have a list of
text/ sub-types which _should_ be inlined (bonus for making it a real
configurable list, not hardwired in the code...).

Thanks,

-Miles

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