From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19760 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: metamail Date: 08 Dec 1998 11:47:31 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <76soeq4mar.fsf@ppllc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158051 13243 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:54:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:54:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA18153 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 11:49:06 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA16598; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 10:48:21 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 08 Dec 1998 10:48:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA26563 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 10:48:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from beaver.jprc.com (BEAVER.JPRC.COM [207.86.147.217]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA18139 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 11:48:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by beaver.jprc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA02831; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 11:47:32 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "5(T0tZd{6}pd~YzBG8O/*EW,.]6]@`m^e;fv65W^Y&=d"M\1H}>T~4_.kcDD.O~y3k)a6h R;Nmi>9|>Nm${2IpM0^RcUEa\jcq?KOP)C&~x51l~zCHTulL^_T|u0I^kB'z@]{`2YjQu In-Reply-To: Jake Colman's message of "08 Dec 1998 11:43:08 -0500" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070065 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.65) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 16 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19760 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19760 Metamail is (should be) completely superfluous, and would probably just get in the way. Metamail is a MIME unpacker which will spawn viewers for each segment appropriately. But that is what pGnus is now doing. 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. (On a side note, I'm disturbed by the recent tendency to discuss "the" everything. This trend seems to have started with "the" gimp, rather than just gimp, making me wonder if we're soon to start talking about "the" emacs and "the" linux and heaven knows what else. It's just gimp, and emacs, and linux, and metamail. It seems to me that these are all names, not nouns; I'm not "the" Karl [especially since I'm not unique with the name], I'm just Karl.)