From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: forwarding as text rather than MIME?
Date: 28 Feb 1999 20:21:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rju2w6fi63.fsf@my.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ylbtighvir.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> > Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
>
> >>> 1) Forwarding things as message/rfc822 allows automatic extraction by
> >>> MIME-compliant news/mail readers.
>
> >> ...and many news readers are not MIME compliant, Gnus <= 5.8.x
> >> included.
>
> > Yes, but a message/rfc822 multipart looks no uglier than a traditional
> > forward.
>
> Unless it's being read by someone who uses a newsreader that pipes
> everything that it thinks is MIME through metamail. Like, say, trn.
I just tried it, metamail stripped the mime boundaries and the
"boring" headers. This should be ok in most cases, as long as the
newsreader also allows you to see the "raw" message. I'd be very
surprised if trn doesn't allow that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-28 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-15 18:20 Bill White
1999-02-15 20:36 ` Hans de Graaff
1999-02-19 14:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-20 9:44 ` Hans de Graaff
1999-02-21 7:21 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-21 10:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-21 19:37 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-21 19:40 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-22 12:54 ` Toni Drabik
1999-02-22 17:43 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-22 17:58 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-02-22 18:26 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-23 18:32 ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-02-24 15:52 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-02-24 16:17 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-24 16:30 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-24 16:43 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-02-24 16:52 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-24 17:01 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-02-24 17:10 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
[not found] ` <m3678rtieo.fsf@serpent.laymusic.>
1999-02-25 17:17 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-02-25 10:39 ` Russ Allbery
1999-02-26 7:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-26 11:48 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-26 12:30 ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-02-26 14:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-27 12:38 ` Russ Allbery
1999-02-27 13:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-27 14:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-28 19:21 ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
1999-02-22 22:13 ` Aaron M. Ucko
1999-04-03 7:28 ` Hans de Graaff
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