From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18682 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: !MML Date: 15 Nov 1998 19:04:12 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199811151727.SAA02236@sean.ebone.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157165 7497 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:39:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:39:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA15791 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:07:04 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB24603; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 12:06:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 15 Nov 1998 12:04:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA01538 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 12:04:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA15748 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id TAA05006 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 19:04:14 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (grossjoh@localhost) by ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id TAA12021; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 19:04:13 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Sean Doran's message of "Sun, 15 Nov 1998 18:27:43 +0100 (CET)" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070046 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.46) Emacs/20.3 Original-Lines: 26 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18682 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18682 Sean Doran 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.