From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28531 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Guessing based on file extension Date: 03 Jan 2000 13:05:40 +0100 Organization: NCR METIS Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165362 30365 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:56:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:56:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5F0D051E for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 07:07:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAB05792; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 06:07:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 03 Jan 2000 06:07:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA08565 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 06:07:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from viffer.metis.no (viffer.oslo.metis.no [195.0.254.249]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3910ED051E for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 07:05:47 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from sb@localhost) by viffer.metis.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA12191; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 13:05:40 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: viffer.metis.no: sb set sender to sb@metis.no using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "02 Jan 2000 22:24:02 +0100" Original-Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28531 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28531 >>>>> Simon Josefsson : > Nothing is changed in the article buffer (it still says > 'application/octet-stream'), but there's a new entry in the > right-button popup-menu which say 'View as application/ms-word' or > whatever the guessed MIME type is. > IMHO this would make it easy enough to use for Gnus users, by the same > time it make it obvious that viewing the attachment as a > application/ms-word file might be the Wrong Thing under some > circumstances and leave the choice to the user. I like this approach.