From: Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: forwarding as text rather than MIME?
Date: 24 Feb 1999 18:10:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lfyalnlocw.fsf@mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Chris Tessone's message of "Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:30:39 -0600"
Hi,
>>>>> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:30:39 -0600
>>>>> Chris Tessone <tessone@fnal.gov> said:
Chris> I'm still not even clear on why forwarding mail messages (much
Chris> less news posts) as MIME is even advantagous.
Because in the ideal case where the receing MUA also handles MIME
properly, the original (and only that) can be extracted automatically.
For old style forwards you'd have to rely on heuristics.
Granted that the MIME forwards are somewhat uglier when viewed in
non-MIME-aware readers.
Robbe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-24 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-15 18:20 Bill White
1999-02-15 20:36 ` Hans de Graaff
1999-02-19 14:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-20 9:44 ` Hans de Graaff
1999-02-21 7:21 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-21 10:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-21 19:37 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-21 19:40 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-22 12:54 ` Toni Drabik
1999-02-22 17:43 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-22 17:58 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-02-22 18:26 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-23 18:32 ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-02-24 15:52 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-02-24 16:17 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-24 16:30 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-24 16:43 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-02-24 16:52 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-24 17:01 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-02-24 17:10 ` Robert Bihlmeyer [this message]
[not found] ` <m3678rtieo.fsf@serpent.laymusic.>
1999-02-25 17:17 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-02-25 10:39 ` Russ Allbery
1999-02-26 7:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-26 11:48 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-26 12:30 ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-02-26 14:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-27 12:38 ` Russ Allbery
1999-02-27 13:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-27 14:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-28 19:21 ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-02-22 22:13 ` Aaron M. Ucko
1999-04-03 7:28 ` Hans de Graaff
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