From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE
Subject: Re: !MML
Date: 15 Nov 1998 19:04:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafu300hlyb.fsf@ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Sean Doran's message of "Sun, 15 Nov 1998 18:27:43 +0100 (CET)"
Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net> writes:
> Also, Lisp is not especially user-unfriendly, so if someone who
> knows Lisp had some reason to go munging the MIME message at the
> description-language level, she or he would have a relatively
> small learning curve.
The problem is that we don't want too many things to be wrongly
interpreted as MIME markup. In fact, we want *nothing* to be wrongly
interpreted thusly.
Interpreting something like `part' preceded by an open parenthesis as
the beginning of MIME markup means that people who have Lisp code in
their messages will likely be in trouble.
Interpreting something like `part' preceded by a less-than character
as the beginning of MIME markup means that people who have SGML-like
text in their messages will likely be in trouble.
Note: in the original version of this message, I actually preceded the
word `part' with the characters mentioned above, and Gnus hang when
posting this message...
kai
--
Life is hard and then you die.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-11-15 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-15 17:27 !MML Sean Doran
1998-11-15 18:04 ` Kai.Grossjohann [this message]
1998-11-15 19:23 ` !MML Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-15 19:42 ` !MML Kai.Grossjohann
1998-11-15 20:41 ` !MML Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-15 20:28 ` !MML Vladimir Volovich
1998-11-16 5:45 ` !MML Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-16 6:42 ` !MML Yair Friedman
1998-11-16 8:42 ` !MML Kai.Grossjohann
1998-11-16 14:50 ` !MML Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-16 15:03 ` !MML Yair Friedman
1998-11-16 16:12 ` !MML Kai.Grossjohann
1998-11-17 9:29 ` !MML Robert Bihlmeyer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-11-14 21:02 !MML Sean Doran
1998-11-14 21:40 ` !MML Hrvoje Niksic
1998-11-15 4:49 ` !MML Shenghuo ZHU
1998-11-15 5:03 ` !MML Shenghuo ZHU
1998-11-15 19:18 ` !MML Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-15 21:28 ` !MML Hrvoje Niksic
1998-11-15 21:58 ` !MML Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-14 19:15 !MML Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-14 20:02 ` !MML Hrvoje Niksic
1998-11-14 20:44 ` !MML Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-14 20:52 ` !MML Hrvoje Niksic
1998-11-14 21:55 ` !MML Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-14 21:26 ` !MML Bruce Stephens
1998-11-15 0:46 ` !MML Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-16 12:32 ` !MML Per Abrahamsen
1998-11-15 13:47 ` !MML Kai.Grossjohann
1998-11-15 19:20 ` !MML Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-15 20:30 ` !MML Vladimir Volovich
1998-11-15 20:48 ` !MML Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-15 21:28 ` !MML Hrvoje Niksic
1998-11-15 22:19 ` !MML Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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