From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19207 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MIME tests one and two results - Outlook Express Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:19:49 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86u2zn4pn9.fsf@ponoka.battleriver.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157599 10413 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:46:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:46:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA06657 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:39:00 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAB22600; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:38:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:38:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA07913 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:38:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sparky.gnus.org (ppp083.uio.no [129.240.240.88]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA06601 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:37:49 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA17910; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 22:47:01 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Greg Bear's _Slant_ X-Now-Playing: The Art of Noise's _Who's Afraid of...!_ Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Dale Hagglund's message of "25 Nov 1998 10:02:18 -0800" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070055 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.55) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > The user has *got* to have a clue the information is there to begin > with, before he can know to use `M-t' or `K b' or whatever. If > there's no visible clue, Robert's hypothetical friend has no reason to > guess that Robert has been as nice as to send two forms of the Kafka > manuscript. Yes... Well, Gnus now displays "(2 parts)" if there are two MIME parts in the buffer, so that would be a clue. It the user wants to see what that really is, then `M-t' is available. But normally (as in 99% of the cases), the user doesn't want to see what it really is. A multipart/alternative, for instance, is virtually excusively used for sending a text/plain and a text/not-very-plain part, and Gnus will display the part that is "nicest". In the text/plain and image/jpeg case (which is not the normal case), the user may very well want to see the textual version. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen