From: dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg)
Subject: Re: MIME Message Problem
Date: 23 Sep 1999 15:14:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1baeqd784h.fsf@blackbird.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jake Colman's message of "23 Sep 1999 14:58:09 -0400"
It's necessary because whomever is sending you these messages is using
a client that isn't nice enough to tell everyone what type of
attachment is being sent. On top of that it's encoding plain text in
base64. There isn't much else Gnus can do with it other than give you
the button and let you inline it if you think that's appropriate. If
gnus automatically inlined all base64 encoded application/octet-stream
messages you'd probably be pretty upset with it :-)
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prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-23 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-23 17:40 Jake Colman
1999-09-23 17:40 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-09-23 18:58 ` Jake Colman
1999-09-23 19:12 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-09-23 19:14 ` David S. Goldberg [this message]
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