From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Automagic content recognition - good or bad?
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:11:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3el7zl3tc.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hvsn2r7qj0.fsf@rasputin.ws.nextra.no>
Bjørn Mork <bmork@dod.no> writes:
> Gnus tries very hard to be smart when viewing articles with
> encapsulated files. But in the MIME-enabled world of today I often
> find this more annoying than useful. Sure, recognising uuencoded files
> may still be of some use, but shell archives and postscript files? I
> propose that this feature is turned off by default. Ordinary lusers
> like myself are very confused by not being able to discuss simple
> shell scripts like
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo .
> exit 0
>
> without Gnus thinking it's a shell archive and making an attachment
> out of it.
I've now changed the default of `mm-uu-configure-list' to
`((shar . disabled))'. If anybody has any objections, please holler.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-30 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-10 11:48 Bjørn Mork
2002-07-10 12:41 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-10 12:54 ` Bjørn Mork
2002-07-10 14:33 ` Josh Huber
2002-07-10 16:18 ` Frank Schmitt
2002-12-30 19:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2002-12-30 19:26 ` Karl Eichwalder
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