From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: Re: gnus-uu-post-insert-binary-in-article is not correct
Date: 03 Aug 1998 16:22:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wh67ga6t7i.fsf@viffer.oslo.metis.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..."'s message of "31 Jul 1998 01:18:47 -0700"
>>>>> "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>:
> Jochen Hayek, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>> On the other hand: have you ever received a `.doc' file, that was
>> not an MS Word file? And if that would ever happen, I assume it
>> wouldn't even be base64 (or whatever) encoded, so what's the damage
>> letting `.doc' appear as `application/msword'.
> Sure. People using WordPerfect end their files in .doc. Also,
> anyone attaching any file in Pine will have their file auto-munged
> into Base64 whether it's plain text or binary. Now, if this happens
> to be a plain text file that is name <something>.doc, you lose.
Another one is FrameMaker who also likes to use .doc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-08-03 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-27 14:25 Jochen_Hayek
1998-07-30 20:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-07-30 21:48 ` Jochen_Hayek
1998-07-30 22:46 ` application/msword [was: Re: gnus-uu-post-insert-binary-in-article is not correct] François Pinard
1998-07-31 4:28 ` Andrew J Cosgriff
1998-07-31 10:29 ` Kai Grossjohann
1998-07-31 14:38 ` Jason R Mastaler
1998-07-31 8:18 ` gnus-uu-post-insert-binary-in-article is not correct Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
1998-08-03 14:22 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
1998-08-06 12:27 ` Jochen_Hayek
1998-08-06 13:48 ` Steinar Bang
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