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From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
Cc: Gnus Ding List <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: no button for hidden MIME part
Date: 22 Oct 1999 10:39:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zoxb1mu8.fsf@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Matt McClure's message of "22 Oct 1999 10:26:23 -0400"

Matt McClure <matthew.mcclure.es.99@aya.yale.edu> writes:

> I would have had no idea there was an attachment if the text of the
> message hadn't referred to it.

IMHO, it's the sender's fault.  The mail was multipart/alternative,
which means that it's the same content, different renderings.  In this
case, it _wasn't_ the same content, so they should have used
multipart/mixed.


-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.


  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-10-22 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-10-22 14:26 Matt McClure
1999-10-22 14:38 ` Lee Willis
1999-10-22 14:39 ` Alan Shutko [this message]
1999-10-22 14:57   ` Matt McClure
1999-10-22 15:30     ` David S. Goldberg
1999-10-22 16:58       ` Matt McClure
1999-10-22 20:41         ` Toby Speight
1999-11-06 22:34           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-10-22 21:11         ` Kai Großjohann
1999-10-23 11:44           ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-10-22 14:52 ` David S. Goldberg
1999-10-22 15:28   ` Matt McClure
1999-10-22 15:40     ` David S. Goldberg
1999-10-22 15:55       ` David S. Goldberg
1999-10-22 16:31 ` Laura Conrad
1999-11-06 22:31   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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