From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48368 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Automagic content recognition - good or bad? Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:11:43 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041275795 25644 80.91.224.249 (30 Dec 2002 19:16:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:16:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from util1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18T5Or-0006fR-00 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:16:34 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by util1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18T5KW-0003Rs-00; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:12:04 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:12:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA13612 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:12:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18T5KC-0008Un-00 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 20:11:44 +0100 Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1041275504 31057 80.91.231.2 (30 Dec 2002 19:11:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Dec 2002 19:11:44 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Stars As Eyes's _Enemy Of Fun_: "Falling Picture" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: "4MFoI+`a=I[(a15Ivxc}d~"eYj(B1c19T:u/)*anEJ-;L-m'Bbv&tZmf~.O9f4A;8'ypA: *Y1adl`{YJ@}/fw+|E')|61LaHlhFg[Tx0Y=N-EM>9va:M-PRBF\zI* Cancel-Lock: sha1:f3ZER9ATYNQUUN73qteeOieiXzw= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48368 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48368 Bjørn Mork 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