Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:52:55 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Todd.Miller@courtesan.com: MIME is now being removed from the mailing lists] Message-ID: <20010427005255.20E563E2A@bazooka.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <20010427005925.C77194@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on "Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:59:25 %2B0100"
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Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> writes: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:21:05PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > > 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 That message isn't so bad. The only sign of MIME encoding is the "=20" at the end of one of the lines. If you think I'm nitpicking, go look at: http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=59067+0+archive/2001/freebsd-doc/20010311.freebsd-doc Actually, the best examples of how messy it can get are patches. You haven't sent any longer than a few lines since you started auto-signing messages, but if you want you can look at some of Kris Kennaway's. He also uses Mutt to auto-sign messages: http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=89304+0+current/freebsd-audit (Find an '=' symbol in the patch.) > > 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). The mail archives are fine. I prefer them to all of the other archivers: openresources, egroups, et al. They're fast, have little overhead (i.e., I don't have to scroll down to see the message), and have relatively nice threading. It's the searching that could use an overhaul, IMO. Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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