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 -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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