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From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Functional requirements for Gnus
Date: 28 Aug 1998 14:07:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafvhndjomr.fsf@ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Robert Bihlmeyer's message of "28 Aug 1998 13:22:05 +0200"

>>>>> Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud2.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

  > You seem to be mainly concerned with multipart/mixed. What about
  > multipart/alternative? m/digest, m/parallel, m/related should
  > probably be treated much like m/mixed. There are also
  > multipart/signed, multipart/encrypted, which should be handed over
  > to mailcrypt.

I think it would still be convenient if one had a listing of all parts
of a multipart/alternative, so that one can choose one part to one's
liking.

But a message which is multipart/alternative should by default be
displayed in a user-customizable preferred format, the above listing
of alternatives should be an option only.

kai
-- 
OOP: object oriented programming;  OOPS: object oriented mistakes


  reply	other threads:[~1998-08-28 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-08-26 14:15 Steinar Bang
1998-08-26 15:22 ` Simon Josefsson
1998-08-26 15:29   ` Jean-Yves Perrier
1998-08-26 16:05     ` Simon Josefsson
1998-08-26 17:21       ` William M. Perry
1998-08-27  9:28 ` Steinar Bang
1998-08-28  9:29 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-08-28 10:15   ` David Hedbor
1998-08-28 11:22   ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1998-08-28 12:07     ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
1998-08-28 14:37   ` François Pinard
1998-08-28 15:05     ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-08-28 16:04       ` François Pinard
1998-08-28 16:26         ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-08-29 11:18           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-08-31 13:03             ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-08-31 14:01               ` François Pinard
1998-08-28 16:29         ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-08-28 16:13   ` Phil Humpherys
1998-08-31  8:49   ` Steinar Bang

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