From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: forwarding as text rather than MIME?
Date: 27 Feb 1999 04:38:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylbtighvir.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "26 Feb 1999 15:45:38 +0100"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
>>> 1) Forwarding things as message/rfc822 allows automatic extraction by
>>> MIME-compliant news/mail readers.
>> ...and many news readers are not MIME compliant, Gnus <= 5.8.x
>> included.
> Yes, but a message/rfc822 multipart looks no uglier than a traditional
> forward.
Unless it's being read by someone who uses a newsreader that pipes
everything that it thinks is MIME through metamail. Like, say, trn.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-27 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-15 18:20 Bill White
1999-02-15 20:36 ` Hans de Graaff
1999-02-19 14:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-20 9:44 ` Hans de Graaff
1999-02-21 7:21 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-21 10:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-21 19:37 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-21 19:40 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-22 12:54 ` Toni Drabik
1999-02-22 17:43 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-22 17:58 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-02-22 18:26 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-23 18:32 ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-02-24 15:52 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-02-24 16:17 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-24 16:30 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-24 16:43 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-02-24 16:52 ` Chris Tessone
1999-02-24 17:01 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-02-24 17:10 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
[not found] ` <m3678rtieo.fsf@serpent.laymusic.>
1999-02-25 17:17 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-02-25 10:39 ` Russ Allbery
1999-02-26 7:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-26 11:48 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-26 12:30 ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-02-26 14:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-27 12:38 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
1999-02-27 13:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-27 14:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-02-28 19:21 ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-02-22 22:13 ` Aaron M. Ucko
1999-04-03 7:28 ` Hans de Graaff
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