From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Apr 26 17: 4:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-141-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74B437B42C; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:03:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3QNxPb06327; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:59:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:59:25 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Dima Dorfman Cc: Nik Clayton , 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> References: <20010426104404.B52781@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010426232105.873DC3E2A@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010426232105.873DC3E2A@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:21:05PM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 publici= se > > your PGP key is, IMHO, a good thing. >=20 > 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. >=20 > uuencode=20 Makes it in a pain to inspect the patch inside the mail client. > and/or shar can do this. =20 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=20 http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D69731+72121+/usr/local/ww= w/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 =20 > 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 --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjrotlwACgkQk6gHZCw343W5dwCfbxET+G4nOuoC/Mdi4ug8MSzB N7IAn18HeuP9lho8IjK3TuZQzO+2aCnH =+JcX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --adJ1OR3c6QgCpb/j-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message