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From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: Re: Guessing based on file extension
Date: 05 Jan 2000 08:47:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <whg0wdrmc0.fsf@viffer.metis.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard's message of "04 Jan 2000 14:41:02 -0500"

>>>>> François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>:

> It is surely sad that so many messages use that
> application/octet-stream as a catch-all type.  As a user receiving
> many such messages, I would prefer that Gnus does not make me more
> sad than the situation is already.  It could help better, and the
> little code I submitted is an attempt in that direction.

Hm... indeed.  If it did, I would lose one of the two reasons I
currently have for dragging my heels wrt. a switch to IMAP: editing
the MIME types of attachments (the other one is reparenting of
articles, both are related to article editing).



  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-01-05  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-02  7:24 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-01-02  7:43 ` Daniel Pittman
2000-01-02  8:02 ` Hans de Graaff
2000-01-02 16:09   ` Alan Shutko
2000-01-02 22:42     ` Hans de Graaff
2000-01-02 15:35 ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-01-02 16:11   ` Steinar Bang
2000-01-02 21:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-01-03 12:05   ` Steinar Bang
2000-01-04 19:41 ` François Pinard
2000-01-04 23:32   ` Kai Großjohann
2000-01-05  0:02   ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-01-05  7:47   ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2000-01-05 18:29     ` Kim-Minh Kaplan

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