From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus-uu-post-insert-binary-in-article is not correct
Date: 31 Jul 1998 01:18:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sojiqvq0.fsf@perv.daft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jochen_Hayek@ACM.org's message of "Thu, 30 Jul 1998 21:48:49 GMT"
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Jochen Hayek, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>On the other hand: have you ever received a `.doc' file,
>that was not an MS Word file?
>And if that would ever happen,
>I assume it wouldn't even be base64 (or whatever) encoded,
>so what's the damage letting `.doc' appear as `application/msword'.
Sure. People using WordPerfect end their files in .doc. Also, anyone
attaching any file in Pine will have their file auto-munged into
Base64 whether it's plain text or binary. Now, if this happens to be a
plain text file that is name <something>.doc, you lose. Believe me on
this. I work at the University of Washington. Waaay too many people
use Pine here.
>Welcome to planet earth!
Welcome to the real world.
>So why can't you accept this rather practically minded change request.
Remember that you have the ultimate power. You have the source.
Darren
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-07-31 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-27 14:25 Jochen_Hayek
1998-07-30 20:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-07-30 21:48 ` Jochen_Hayek
1998-07-30 22:46 ` application/msword [was: Re: gnus-uu-post-insert-binary-in-article is not correct] François Pinard
1998-07-31 4:28 ` Andrew J Cosgriff
1998-07-31 10:29 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-07-31 14:38 ` Jason R Mastaler
1998-07-31 8:18 ` Darren/Torin/Who Ever... [this message]
1998-08-03 14:22 ` gnus-uu-post-insert-binary-in-article is not correct Steinar Bang
1998-08-06 12:27 ` Jochen_Hayek
1998-08-06 13:48 ` Steinar Bang
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