From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8882 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: digests and MIME Date: 21 Nov 1996 03:26:05 +0100 Sender: larsi@proletcult.ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148992 15095 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:23:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:23:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 9491 invoked from smtpd); 21 Nov 1996 04:44:37 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by deanna.miranova.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 1996 04:44:36 -0000 Original-Received: from proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (root@ppp17.larris.ifi.uio.no [129.240.68.117]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 05:25:23 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no (8.8.2/8.8.2) id DAA05050; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 03:26:09 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Colin Rafferty's message of 20 Nov 1996 18:00:37 -0500 Original-Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.67/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > I agree about the other article treatments, but MIME is special. > > While all other treatments are things we do because we like to make our > computers work hard, MIME is something that we do because the mail > sender tells us to. Yes, but. There are many other kinds of encoding -- PEM, PGP, uhm, well -- things that will not only add headers and footers, but which will mangle the text in between as well. Perhaps what we need is to divide `gnus-article-display-hook' into two parts -- one which does unencoding, and one which makes the article look all nice an pretty? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen