Re: Making message/rfc822 boundaries visible

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Jack Vinson <vinson@unagi.cis.upenn.edu> writes:

> What is wrong with setting gnus-inhibit-mime-unbuttonizing to 't?  This
> gives me buttons before each part of a mime message.

I did not try, but from what I guess this variable does, it might make too
many buttons and disrupt the legibility of a presentation which was meant
to be unified, and make Gnus an uncomfortable reader.  For an excrutiating
example, you might try `C-h h' in Emacs, and mail the generated output
buffer to yourself.  Having nearly 50 spurious buttons in the display of
the message you will get breaks the overall intent of the original mailing.

MIME was meant, by design, for a unified presentation.  MIME acquired a
bad reputation after many people implemented it with their own opinion
about what MIME should have been, rather than grasping what it really is.
Such distance is doomed to generate uncomfortable readers.  Adding buttons
all over is just not in the spirit of MIME.  Buttons are some kind of last
resort, when MIME rendering just cannot be completed as it was meant to be.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard