Re: Display of inline messag/rfc822 (aka MIME forwards)

[Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud4.tuwien.ac.at>]

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Hi,

>>>>> On 04 Oct 1999 20:20:36 -0400
>>>>> François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> said:

 FP> These principles are fruitful for cases like in-lined
 FP> message/rfc822. I'm including a picture of your demonstration,
 FP> below. For me, it is absolutely clear that I'm looking at a
 FP> quoted message.

for me, it's not. It could be a colored message body (text/enriched,
text/html). Furthermore, my headers are not colored in all
configurations (think: vt220), so in this cases the message/message
boundary is even more elusive.

 FP> When the message has signature, which is the usual case, such
 FP> problems do not exist, as Gnus uses a pretty characteristic
 FP> rendering for signatures.

Again, not in all configurations. Also, denying the problem for "the
usual case", which is not so usual in my opinion (broken mailers
abound), will not make it go away.

 FP> Maybe that Gnus could invent a mere `-- ' (rendered as a
 FP> signature) when rendering a message/rfc822 in a MIME part, which
 FP> has no recognised signature?

That could be a solution. But is it workable in most configurations?

 FP> Here is the promised picture:

FWIW, I don't consider sending messages > 500 lines without asking
first good etiquette.

	Robbe

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