From: Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: MIME handling for common MS Windows attachments?
Date: 14 Jan 1999 16:14:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lfpv8hsx74.fsf@mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Robert Pluim's message of "Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:54:10 +0100 (CET)"
Hi,
>>>>> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:54:10 +0100 (CET)
>>>>> Robert Pluim <rpluim@nortelnetworks.com> said:
Robert> How about defaulting to running "start" on Mickeysoft
Robert> platforms, which will generally Do The Right Thing, and will
Robert> allow users to change things without having to mess with
Robert> mailcap files ? (but have mailcap be preferred, obviously).
I'd rather not have the default start things like word or excel
automatically. Doing it on a button-click is of course ok. But to
think of the security-cheese that most M$ apps are (e.g. you can exec
arbitrary commands from excel)...
Robbe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-01-14 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-12 14:46 John Cooper
[not found] ` <m37lusset2.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1999-01-12 16:28 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-01-12 17:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-12 19:07 ` Karl Eichwalder
1999-01-12 19:37 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-01-15 17:56 ` Karl Eichwalder
1999-01-12 19:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-01-13 7:51 ` Steinar Bang
1999-01-13 9:38 ` Russ Allbery
1999-01-13 14:13 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-01-13 15:50 ` Alan Shutko
1999-01-13 18:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-14 0:58 ` Russ Allbery
1999-01-14 16:14 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-01-13 17:12 ` Matt Armstrong
1999-01-13 18:16 ` William M. Perry
1999-01-13 15:54 ` Robert Pluim
1999-01-13 16:27 ` William M. Perry
1999-01-13 22:35 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-01-14 11:53 ` John Cooper
1999-01-14 12:51 ` John Cooper
1999-01-14 15:14 ` Robert Bihlmeyer [this message]
1999-01-14 15:25 ` Robert Pluim
1999-01-14 19:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-01-14 20:10 ` William M. Perry
1999-01-14 21:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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