From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23961 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Bihlmeyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MIME variables Date: 07 Jul 1999 13:53:24 +0200 Organization: Subgenius Police Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87so74o1dp.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> <874sjjdyqo.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> <87lncvcid9.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> <87zp194xl4.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161598 6048 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:53:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA12217 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 07:55:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAB28896; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 06:53:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 07 Jul 1999 06:54:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA08388 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 06:54:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at (mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at [193.170.75.15]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA12186 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 07:53:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 21764 invoked by uid 524); 7 Jul 1999 11:53:24 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Robbe In-Reply-To: davidk@lysator.liu.se's message of "06 Jul 1999 23:41:34 +0200" Original-Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070068 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.68) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23961 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23961 Hi, >>>>> On 06 Jul 1999 23:41:34 +0200 >>>>> davidk@lysator.liu.se (David Kågedal) said: David> Looking at RFC 2045, I see tht the BNF grammar allows subtypes David> of the x-* variety. Scanning quickly through the document, I David> see no other restrictions. So it's not forbidden. David> RFC 2046 has the following to say about text/*: 2046> (1) text -- textual information. The subtype "plain" in 2046> particular indicates plain text containing no formatting 2046> commands or directives of any sort. Plain text is intended to 2046> be displayed "as-is". No special software is required to get 2046> the full meaning of the text, aside from support for the 2046> indicated character set. This would imply text/plain, though. text/x-patch is in all ways better than any application/foo-bar, because: 2046> Unrecognized subtypes of "text" should be treated as subtype 2046> "plain" as long as the MIME implementation knows how to handle 2046> the charset. I still think text/x-patch is better, since it would make it so easy to have a different default action for patches. And they are differently formated than plain text after all ... Robbe -- Robert Bihlmeyer reads: Deutsch, English, MIME, Latin-1, NO SPAM!