From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: missing Mime-Version and format=flowed
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:26:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilu657wcs9a.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9u0vg7bp5.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 06 2004, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>
>> I'm using the value t for the gnus-article-loose-mime variable
>> and I can see those articles correctly.
>
> Thanks. I should have checked the Fine Manual for `MIME-Version'. ;-)
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)MIME Commands") ]
> | `gnus-article-loose-mime'
> | If non-`nil', Gnus won't require the `MIME-Version' header before
> | interpreting the message as a MIME message. This helps when
> | reading messages from certain broken mail user agents. The
> | default is `nil'.
> `----
What harm would there be if the default for this variable was `t'?
If the variable is only used for interpretation, it seems to me that
the default should be to give the user as good experience as possible.
Even with broken input, unless that has other bad consequences. Which
here would seem to argue for changing the default to `t'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-06 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-06 10:06 Reiner Steib
2004-08-06 10:33 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-08-06 11:22 ` Reiner Steib
2004-08-06 13:26 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2004-08-06 14:38 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-08-06 14:57 ` Simon Josefsson
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