* archives of the list? / base64 attachments?
@ 1999-09-20 14:02 Matt McClure
1999-09-20 15:15 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Matt McClure @ 1999-09-20 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
Are messages to this list archived somewhere?
I apologize if this has been talked about hundreds of times already. Is
it possible to attach a file to a message using base64 as the Content
Transfer Encoding? Every attachment I've sent has been encoded as
quoted-printable by gnus. I'm using pgnus 0.96.
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* Re: archives of the list? / base64 attachments?
1999-09-20 14:02 archives of the list? / base64 attachments? Matt McClure
@ 1999-09-20 15:15 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-20 15:28 ` Norbert Koch
1999-09-20 21:42 ` Johan Kullstam
1999-09-20 22:51 ` Jason R Mastaler
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 1999-09-20 15:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
Matt McClure <matthew.mcclure.es.99@aya.yale.edu> writes:
> Are messages to this list archived somewhere?
If so, you can find the archive starting at www.gnus.org. I think
there is an archive.
> I apologize if this has been talked about hundreds of times already. Is
> it possible to attach a file to a message using base64 as the Content
> Transfer Encoding? Every attachment I've sent has been encoded as
> quoted-printable by gnus. I'm using pgnus 0.96.
See the variable mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults.
kai
--
I like BOTH kinds of music.
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* Re: archives of the list? / base64 attachments?
1999-09-20 15:15 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 1999-09-20 15:28 ` Norbert Koch
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From: Norbert Koch @ 1999-09-20 15:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
In message <vaf3dw9ipgw.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>,
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
> Matt McClure <matthew.mcclure.es.99@aya.yale.edu> writes:
>
> > Are messages to this list archived somewhere?
>
> If so, you can find the archive starting at www.gnus.org. I think
> there is an archive.
I dunno, whether it's still valid, but as a pointer ...
`gnus-group-archive-directory' is a variable declared in Lisp.
-- loaded from "gnus-group"
Value: "*ftp@ftp.hpc.uh.edu:/pub/emacs/ding-list/"
Documentation:
*The address of the (ding) archives.
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* Re: archives of the list? / base64 attachments?
1999-09-20 14:02 archives of the list? / base64 attachments? Matt McClure
1999-09-20 15:15 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 1999-09-20 21:42 ` Johan Kullstam
1999-09-20 22:51 ` Jason R Mastaler
2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Johan Kullstam @ 1999-09-20 21:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Gnus Ding List
Matt McClure <matthew.mcclure.es.99@aya.yale.edu> writes:
> Are messages to this list archived somewhere?
>
> I apologize if this has been talked about hundreds of times already. Is
> it possible to attach a file to a message using base64 as the Content
> Transfer Encoding? Every attachment I've sent has been encoded as
> quoted-printable by gnus. I'm using pgnus 0.96.
yes. look at the variable mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults. put
in your .gnus.el the following incantation:
(setq mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults
'(("text/x-patch" 8bit)
("text/.*" qp-or-base64) ;; <- i am strongly considering
;; plain base64 here
("message/rfc822" 8bit)
("application/emacs-lisp" 8bit)
("application/x-patch" 8bit)
(".*" base64))) ;; <- this was qp-or-base64
the doc string for qp-or-base64 claims that it will choose the `best'
encoding format but my experience is that it always uses
quoted-printable regardless.
for compressed binaries, the quoted-printable representation is much
larger than base64. quoted printable can easily double the size of a
binary attachment.
quoted-printable is also slow compared to base64. e.g., i takes
about a minute to send a 1 megabyte compressed archive with
quotedprintable compared to a second or two for base64.
quoted-printable is either broken up front or doesn't survive sending
by qmail.
i see qp losing to base64 for all these reasons. i don't know what
criteron is used to select `best'. whatever it is, it seems bogus to
me.
in light of all this, i am tempted to change qp-or-base64 for text
junk to base64 too.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[kullstam@ne.mediaone.net]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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* Re: archives of the list? / base64 attachments?
1999-09-20 14:02 archives of the list? / base64 attachments? Matt McClure
1999-09-20 15:15 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-20 21:42 ` Johan Kullstam
@ 1999-09-20 22:51 ` Jason R Mastaler
2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Jason R Mastaler @ 1999-09-20 22:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Gnus Ding List
Matt McClure <matthew.mcclure.es.99@aya.yale.edu> writes:
> Are messages to this list archived somewhere?
http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/
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