From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19116 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: 24 Nov 1998 10:44:14 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157525 9925 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:45:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:45:25 +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 FAA24628 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 05:17:25 -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 EAB02727; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:17:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:16:54 -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 EAA28632 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:15:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sparky.gnus.org (ppp093.uio.no [129.240.240.98]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA24526 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 05:15:37 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA30028; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:23:35 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Paul Auster's _Translations_ X-Now-Playing: Stereolab's _Dots and Loops_: "Prisoner of Mars" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: amu@mit.edu's message of "23 Nov 1998 23:27:06 -0500" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070054 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.54) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ That's what emime does, and what section 5.1.4 of RFC 2046 suggests: > > Systems should recognize that the content of the various parts are > interchangeable. Systems should choose the "best" type based on the > local environment and references, in some cases even through user > interaction. As with "multipart/mixed", the order of body parts is > significant. In this case, the alternatives appear in an order of > increasing faithfulness to the original content. In general, the > best choice is the LAST part of a type supported by the recipient > system's local environment. Right. Then I think that Gnus should get rid of the buttons for the multipart/alternative as well. I'll default to that in 0.54. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen