Hmm, looks like after the failed attempt for a flame war on version numbering, you are trying to start one on mail clients 8-=)
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:52:19PM -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
I've come to _hate_ diffs attached as Application/OCTET-STREAM. Can you please, Please, PLEASE, attach them as Text/PLAIN?
I'd like to see properly labeled attachment types too, be they text/plain, mime, gzip or whatever.
I use Pine over a ssh connection to read wine-{devel,patches}, and I can simply view the Text/PLAIN attachments, whereas I have to:
Hmm, the problem you mentioned is one of the two major reasons that drove me away from pine towards mutt. I'm now running a (n almost) properly configured mutt and don't have these problems any more because app/o-s are just viewed with the text viewer after pressing v and selecting the attachment (which takes maybe 2 seconds). I don't like your idea of 1 patch per mail, as this would probably take me 2-3 additional seconds per mail (poor me).
ciao Jörg
-- Joerg Mayer jmayer@loplof.de I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know what proactive means.