From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:50:53 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87znfuzwxe.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <200310121947.h9CJlhKH006102@oak.pohoyda.family> <6480-Thu16Oct2003192118+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <3405-Thu16Oct2003205828+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <9003-Fri17Oct2003082402+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <87fzhsnkp1.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <1438-Fri17Oct2003201054+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <87ismj70d2.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066733560 10411 80.91.224.253 (21 Oct 2003 10:52:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 12:52:38 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABu7y-00029n-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:52:38 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABu7x-0001SL-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:52:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABu7U-0004ta-F9 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:52:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABu74-0004oO-Kd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:51:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABu6S-00049P-CV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:51:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [130.158.98.109] (helo=tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABu6P-00048b-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:51:01 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABu6H-000498-00; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:50:53 +0900 Original-To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Tue, 21 Oct 2003 05:59:07 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.5 (celeriac, linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17289 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17289 >>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson writes: Simon> Wasn't tm abandoned 1998 or so? Yes. Simon> Do you have example of some practical benefit (i.e., Simon> feature-wise, visible to users) adding SEMI to Emacs Simon> actually would have? Not any more. Eli was remarking that a lot of duplicate effort could have been avoided if there were a standard MIME library. AFAIK, tm was on offer in 1996-97, but nobody did anything about it. Ditto SEMI in '97-99. Unfortunate lack of foresight, that's all. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.