From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9945 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: mailcap/mime types Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:49:23 +0100 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: References: <5ph16lFr63voU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195681239 21180 80.91.229.12 (21 Nov 2007 21:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:40:39 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 21 22:40:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IuxJC-0002G3-TR for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:40:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IuxIy-0007e1-P6 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:40:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tiscali.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1195678672 02 19963 ZsNe1xvvsmDBtpO 071121 20:57:52 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: rYMaIOZAYeYxlMzOKg-VGpjy6xUzB3M+aGs8FyCiTlAUou6VkW3E8k X-Face: P05mdcZT&lL[-s2=mw~RsllZ0zZAb?vdE}.s List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:9945 Archived-At: On Wed, Nov 21 2007, William F Hammond wrote: > But in .mailcap this would cause mplayer to be spawned for all > instances of application/octet-stream, which is a catch-all > content-type for "binary" things of whatever nature. Yes. But that's what Richard asked. ;-) > My sense is that this content-type is used when the content-provider > expects the user to download and save or when the content-provider > does not know what content-type to use. More often it happens when using a broken MUA. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/