From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Mime-Version and no Content-Type
Date: 19 Dec 1998 23:12:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r9tvdbnd.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "19 Dec 1998 20:30:29 +0100"
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> > Oh come on, who reads documentation?
>
> Anyone who wants their mail reader *not* to be totally broken.
That would be half the mail reader writing population, then. :-)
> Has anyone provided a specific example of a mail reader known to be
> broken that way?
I haven't seen anyone giving a specific example; no. It would be
interesting to know.
(The MIME tests I had people try out were all with "Mime-Version", and
all the readers did grok them as MIME messages, so it would seem that
at least the bigger mail readers (Outlook, Mozilla, Eudora, etc.) do
this OK.)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-19 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-16 13:40 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-16 14:04 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1998-12-16 16:30 ` Steinar Bang
1998-12-16 16:39 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-16 17:44 ` Steinar Bang
1998-12-17 17:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-17 13:27 ` Harry Putnam
1998-12-17 14:04 ` Colin Rafferty
1998-12-17 14:40 ` Harry Putnam
1998-12-17 17:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-18 3:35 ` Harry Putnam
1998-12-18 3:41 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-17 14:34 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-17 15:44 ` François Pinard
1998-12-19 13:02 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-19 19:12 ` Dale Hagglund
1998-12-19 19:30 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-19 22:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1998-12-16 15:03 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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