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Date:      Sun, 07 Oct 2001 20:31:56 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>, Jason <jason@smethers.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit 
Message-ID:  <20011008033156.0DF2D38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200110080114.f981Eg755232@harmony.village.org> 

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Warner Losh wrote:
> 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 :-(

s/use it properly/use it at all/.  It effectively destroys MIME.

Cheers,
-Peter
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