Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> > I still think relieving users by defaulting ms-word to MS Word
> > viewers, etc., might be useful, even if strictly against FSF's
> > philosophy.
> 
> I think so, to.  Defaulting *.doc to ms-word is bad, but I see no harm 
> in defaulting application/ms-word to MS Word (or something else that
> can understand these files).

I think defaulting .doc to ms-word is good when running under Win32.

Anyway, Debian Linux has an /etc/mime.types file that does what
mailcap.el's mailcap-mime-extensions does.  I'm not sure how Debian
specific it is, but are people open to having Gnus look for it (or
maybe a ~/.mime.types file)?