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Date:      Sun, 07 Oct 2001 19:14:42 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
Cc:        Jason <jason@smethers.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit 
Message-ID:  <200110080114.f981Eg755232@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Oct 2001 01:35:01 %2B0300." <20011008013500.A17148@hades.hell.gr> 
References:  <20011008013500.A17148@hades.hell.gr>  <20011006200417.B86A13808@overcee.netplex.com.au> <3BC0BEF1.1D2725CE@mindspring.com> <20011008010733.C73967@hades.hell.gr> <200110072223.f97MNOit024452@ns2.austin.rr.com> 

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In message <20011008013500.A17148@hades.hell.gr> Giorgos Keramidas writes:
: Don't use attachments.  MIME is evil.  Copy/paste the patch in the
: report.  There are people out there that do not have MIME-aware MUA's
: and you'll break the nice query-pr command that developers can use in
: freefall to read the entire text of a PR.
: 
: 	freefall% query-pr -F 27653 | more
: 
: If you use base64/quoted-printable or some other exotic encoding of
: the attached patch, the above command will be pretty useless.

Actually, MIME isn't evil, if used properly.  Trouble is that gnats
doesn't use it properly :-(

Warner

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