Re: comments on pgnus-v0.80

[Lee Willis <lee@gbdirect.co.uk>]

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SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> * The MIME display defaults are unintuitive.  Could you please make
>   them more Netscapish?  In particular, every MIME type that can be
>   displayed inline, should be displayed inline by default, at least in 
>   XEmacs.  It's what most users have come to expect.

Maybe, but are you bearing in mind that pgnus currently defaults to
sending attachments with a disposition of "attachment" as do a large
number of clients so these should *not* be displayed inline even if the
reader is capable of doing so. The only things that should be shown
inline are those that have a disposition of inline.[1]

> * Notwithstanding the previous item and the coolness of Lars'
>   presentation, I'm not sure I like handing html parts to W3 as a
>   default.  It was pretty cool that tm blanked it out -- html
>   doesn't belong in either mail or news.  How fast does this all
>   work on slow(er) machines?  W3 flies on Demeter, but that's not
>   exactly a fair test yet.

Me neither, it doesn't really fly on mine so I like to default to
text/plain when it's there. I do feel that it is *correct* to default in
normal circumstances to the most advanced version (ie quite often
text/html). With this is mind there hould probably be a mention in the
manual about the following code, if there wasn't already (Posted on this
list a while ago by David Goldberg who it seems has contributed a large
portion of my .gnus!)


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> * There needs to be a more descriptive error message about the
>   incompatible change to the `nnmail-spool-file' variable.  A
>   pointer to the manual (which contains good detail on this) would
>   be fine, but I got a `wrong-type argument listp, procmail' beep
>   the first time through.

I think we need a pgnus MIME FAQ  with all the commonly asked questions
like :

  * How do I make pgnus use MIME
  * What needs to change in my .gnus
  * How do I show text/plain instead of text/html (See above!)
  * How do I get w3 not to munge my colours

etc. etc. etc.

2p worth ;)
Lee.
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