From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64298 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: default mime for attaching files Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:47:58 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: <87zm7op2y1.fsf@patagonia.sebmags.homelinux.org> <87lkj7q506.fsf@patagonia.sebmags.homelinux.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171000123 619 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2007 05:48:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 05:48:43 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M12822@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Feb 09 06:48:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFOcR-0007mh-Av for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:48:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HFOcH-0005FP-Tr; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:48:13 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HFOcG-0005Ez-90 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:48:12 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HFOc9-00033E-HA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:48:11 -0600 Original-Received: from orlando.hostforweb.net ([216.246.45.90]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1HFOc8-0003Ll-00 for ; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:48:04 +0100 Original-Received: from [66.225.201.151] (port=56925 helo=mail.jpl.org) by orlando.hostforweb.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HFOc7-0002g1-44 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:48:03 -0600 X-Hashcash: 1:20:070209:ding@gnus.org::Ow8lmrP56+96T96r:00004JW6 X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yVS4WWpneKZ9SmHYVyARjCg9cvg= X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - orlando.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64298 Archived-At: >>>>> In <87lkj7q506.fsf@patagonia.sebmags.homelinux.org> >>>>> Sebastian P. Luque wrote: > The reason I wanted to do this is that people I've sent *.tar.gz files > with the default application/octet-stream complained that they couldn't > "open them" well in their systems (I couldn't get more details than > that). So I came across this: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip > Is this incorrect? application/x-gzip for .gz files seems to be the de-facto standard nowadays. While I don't have the personal mime.types file, Fedora Core 6 Linux that I use assigns it to gz and tgz in the /etc/mime.types file. So, such files I send will be all labeled with application/x-gzip actually. ;-) Regards,