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From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
Cc: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Those MIME requirements
Date: 11 Sep 1998 15:25:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3g1dyflbl.fsf@hubert.wuh.wustl.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com's message of "11 Sep 1998 14:16:21 -0500"

>>>>> "B" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

B>   Content-disposition should be honored.  If someone mails me a
B> word file and I have a converter set up in my mailcap for showing
B> it (or however we might do such a thing), I might not want to have
B> it shown inline anyway.

OTOH, there are a number of mailers which don't have the concept of
showing things inline, so they always call things attachments.  And I
think it's a terrible pain not to be able to view text files inline,
simply because the other end told me not to.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - By consent of the corrupted
Two cars in every pot and a chicken in every garage.


  reply	other threads:[~1998-09-11 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-09-11 11:35 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-11 12:51 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-11 13:05 ` Steinar Bang
1998-09-11 14:23   ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-11 14:50   ` Steinar Bang
1998-09-11 15:08   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-11 17:07     ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1998-09-11 21:10       ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-12  3:10       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-12  8:47         ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-09-12 11:41           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-16 13:13             ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-09-16 14:21               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-17 12:07                 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-09-11 21:06     ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-12  6:16       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-11 13:48 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-11 13:51 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-11 15:12   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-11 15:25 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-09-11 15:52   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-11 18:10     ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-09-11 19:16       ` William M. Perry
1998-09-11 20:25         ` Alan Shutko [this message]
1998-09-11 20:40           ` Richard Coleman
1998-09-13  1:59           ` William M. Perry
1998-09-12  6:10       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-11 15:34 ` HTML (was: Re: Those MIME requirements) Per Abrahamsen
1998-09-11 17:26   ` William M. Perry
1998-09-11 18:12     ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-09-11 19:17       ` William M. Perry
1998-09-12  4:51     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-12  9:58       ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-09-12 12:00         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-13  1:41           ` William M. Perry
1998-09-13  6:57             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-14 11:32               ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-09-14 14:00                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-14 11:32             ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-09-14  8:56         ` Jan Vroonhof
1998-09-14 10:59         ` Dave Love
1998-09-14 11:32           ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-09-16  7:53         ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-09-11 16:38 ` Those MIME requirements Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-09-12  2:56   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-13  1:34     ` William M. Perry
1998-09-11 21:04 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-09-12  6:15   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-12 10:06     ` Lisp in mailcap file (Re: Those MIME requirements) Jean-Yves Perrier
1998-09-13  1:32     ` Those MIME requirements William M. Perry
1998-09-12  9:48 ` CID (Was Re: Those MIME requirements) Jean-Yves Perrier
1998-09-12 11:53   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-13  1:37     ` William M. Perry
1998-09-13  6:08       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-14 17:16 ` Those updated MIME requirements Steinar Bang
1998-09-15  0:43 ` Those " Simon Josefsson
1998-09-16  9:23   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-16 13:10     ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-09-16 15:06     ` Per Abrahamsen

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