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>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

>> But I think Gnus should default to attachment behaviour, in the
>> absense of content-disposition headers, because that's probably
>> closer to what the composing MUA expects.

> "Attachment" behavior means not displaying the part at all,
> according to RFC2183.  The user should be notified that the part
> exists, but it should not be automatically displayed.

Hm... one thing I've done a lot, is to send stuff like eg. compilation 
errors as text/plain parts with c-d disposition of attachment.

The idea has been that the receipient would see the text to read
inline in the message, but would be provided with buttons to make it
easy for him to save it to a file.