From: "François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: metamail
Date: 08 Dec 1998 12:17:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oqww42mu3o.fsf@icule.progiciels-bpi.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of "08 Dec 1998 11:47:31 -0500"
Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:
> Metamail is a MIME unpacker which will spawn viewers for each segment
> appropriately. Metamail doesn't even do a particularly good job of it,
> considering that it doesn't even inform the user of the existence of
> choices under multipart/alternative specs.
Maybe that `metamail' understands what MIME is a bit better than some of us.
It has been written by "the" (:-) Nathaniel Borenstein (sp?), this fellow
who designed MIME. Maybe that `metamail' is not a masterpiece of programming
art, but it is nevertheless close enough to the original spirit of MIME.
--
François Pinard mailto:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-08 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-08 16:43 metamail Jake Colman
1998-12-08 16:47 ` metamail Karl Kleinpaste
1998-12-08 17:17 ` François Pinard [this message]
1998-12-08 18:38 ` metamail Karl Kleinpaste
1998-12-08 19:29 ` metamail Jake Colman
1998-12-09 9:36 ` metamail Steinar Bang
1998-12-09 11:49 ` metamail Kai.Grossjohann
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