Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:59:25 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Todd.Miller@courtesan.com: MIME is now being removed from the mailing lists] Message-ID: <20010427005925.C77194@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20010426232105.873DC3E2A@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:21:05PM -0700 References: <20010426104404.B52781@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010426232105.873DC3E2A@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:21:05PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> > 1. PGP. Not a huge deal, but anything that makes it easy to publicise
> > your PGP key is, IMHO, a good thing.
>
> This message is PGP-signed, but is not MIME.
I'll take your word for it. I have procmail automatically re-MIME any
non-MIME PGP signed messages that come in :-)
> > 2. People submitting patches as attachments. It's much easier to
> > pull out 3 different attachments from a message if they're
> > separate attachments than it is to have to cut-n-paste out of the
> > message body.
>
> uuencode
Makes it in a pain to inspect the patch inside the mail client.
> and/or shar can do this.
Shar would be the lesser of two evils.
> Actually, the only reason I don't like MIME is because not everything
> can read it: specifically, the mail archives and the composition
> portion of my archaic MUA. I understand no one really cares about the
> latter, but the former is a problem. Have you actually tried looking
> at your messages in the archives?
I just took a look at
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=69731+72121+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-doc/20010422.freebsd-doc
which, IMHO, looks OK. The first four lines are easy to ignore, and
it's obvious where the end of the message is from the sig block
> All that said, I can live with MIME. It'd be nice if the mail
> archives can be fixed, but I personally don't want to spend lots of
> time doing that.
What would a fix look like? The mail archives could use an overhaul
anyway (and have done for some time).
N
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