From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25830 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Making message/rfc822 boundaries visible Date: 10 Oct 1999 15:40:40 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163147 16114 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:19:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:19:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA18033 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:47:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB07344; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:46:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:46:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA28258 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:45:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from jupiter.rtsq.qc.ca (rtsq.grics.qc.ca [199.84.132.81]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA18012 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:43:35 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ariel.progiciels-bpi.ca by jupiter.rtsq.qc.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA09772; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from iro.umontreal.ca (uucp@localhost) by ariel.progiciels-bpi.ca (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI) via UUCP id PAA03655; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:46:04 -0700 Original-Received: from titan.progiciels-bpi.ca.progiciels-bpi.ca by icule.progiciels-bpi.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02315; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 15:40:53 -0400 Original-To: Jack Vinson X-Face: "b_m|CE6#'Q8fliQrwHl9K,]PA_o'*S~Dva{~b1n*)K*A(BIwQW.:LY?t4~xhYka_.LV?Qq `}X|71X0ea&H]9Dsk!`kxBXlG;q$mLfv_vtaHK_rHFKu]4'<*LWCyUe@ZcI6"*wB5M@[m 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. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard