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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Why won't gnus display certain messages
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:51:41 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pryb5ape.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ikj477g.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Fri\, 16 Nov 2007 03\:52\:35 +0800")

jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> MB> The real problem of course is that the software that sent the message
> MB> screwed up big-time by including an unusable text alternative.
>
> Sure hope gnus has facilities to detect such, and roll with the punches.

A good solution, for instance, would be for Gnus to automatically send a
reply to the message saying "Your mail program is broken, you dimwit!
Change to a new one before I come up there and bust your sorry ass!"

-Miles

-- 
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-15 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3362.1194893976.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-11-13  1:10 ` Miles Bader
2007-11-13  1:51   ` reader
2007-11-13  7:47     ` Tassilo Horn
2007-11-16 14:38       ` reader
2007-11-15 19:52   ` jidanni
2007-11-15 23:51     ` Miles Bader [this message]
2007-11-16 14:04       ` reader
2007-11-12 18:50 reader

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