From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13288 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Sheehy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Features before the next millenium Date: 17 Dec 1997 13:12:53 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152683 8520 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:24:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:24:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25969 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:13:45 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09159 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:15:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAJ06194; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:15:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:13:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA06181 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:13:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23551 invoked by uid 504); 17 Dec 1997 18:13:35 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23548 invoked from network); 17 Dec 1997 18:13:34 -0000 Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (129.83.10.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 17 Dec 1997 18:13:34 -0000 Original-Received: from caffeine.mitre.org (caffeine [129.83.10.136]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA17020 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:12:56 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by caffeine.mitre.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA01895; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:12:54 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "17 Dec 1997 08:04:59 +0100" Original-Lines: 43 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.18/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13288 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13288 Steinar Bang writes: > But it would be nice if message parts meant to be displayed inline, > actually were displayed inline, in a single *Article* buffer. This is tangential to the real discussion here, but how can a message part[0] be "meant" to be displayed inline? Email and Usenet are not page layout media.[1] How would you specify in an email that some attachment should be `inline'? And why on earth would you want to? The strongest thing about email (and news) is that it is ubiquitous. This is possible because it uses something nice and portable. Text. Then again, HTML wasn't meant to be a page layout language either, and it's ended up as one. Very unfortunate. > Agreed. I've been thinking about hacking TM to use w3-mode.el to > smooth out the HTML, and then hopefully being able to reply to it. I suppose. For me, the only response that makes sense to an HTMLized email or news post is "I have deleted your message unread." To each their own, I guess. [0] making the big assumption for the moment that a `message' is generally either email or usenet. although I can't think of anything that i would consider a message that this would be different for. [1] well, except for alt.fan.warlord, but. -- Justin Sheehy In a cloud bones of steel.