On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:37:25PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-24 12:54:55 +0000:
> > hm, please don't.  some people get confused by mime.  i disable my
> > pgp signature for some people because they see the attachment and
> > get all clueless.  "your mail had an attachment!  i couldn't read it!
> > your entire message made no sense!  augh!"  (obviously all in uppercase)
>     you are confusing some MUAs' inability to handle specific MIME types
>     such as application/pgp with how MIME works. Are you subscribed to

no, i'm actually not.  raise your assumed cluelevel, thanks.

i have no problem with mime.  but it doesn't matter what my (non-)issues
are; it's what newbie users expect.  and multipart documents confuse them.
most of these people use windows and they tend to think attachment ==
virus.

>     any ezmlm-served list? Does that list append a footer to messages
>     that go through it? Look at any multipart MIME message, such as one
>     with an attachment. You'll see that the list footer is not inside
>     the text of the message, but in it's own part, and yet you see it
>     inline with the text the OP had written:

focus on the actual problem.  most people who use tmda are clued.
what mailing lists i subscribe to is completely unimportant.  my concern
is what other people use.  *i* use mutt and render a slew of mime types
inline or can fire off a browser/client for them.  but i think the
confirm mails should be as structurally simple as possible.

personally i think that plugging tmda should be an option.  but if not,
then perhaps the plug could go in the headers.  if it ends up as a mime
attachment i'll just patch the code to take it out.  still a pain though.

kevin

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