[A86] Re: vertical scrolling

To: <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: [A86] Re: vertical scrolling
From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 10:18:12 -0700
References: <0d0681451140751NET049S@hetnet.nl>
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Or why can't people not be lazy and have their mail client send the proper
content-type for the files he or she is attaching?  Really, it's not that
difficult.

Guessing a file's type by it's extension is BAD behavior.  There is a
content-type for a reason.  IE attempts to guess what a server is sending
based on the content and not the content-type sent by the server, and it
causes a lot of problems with things.  The mailing list is configured to not
attach anything, which is fine, considering it is a text only list.  If
people are going to be lazy and attach a file rather than pasting it into
the email, then the mailing list manager will try to help him or her out by
inserting it as text.

> Can't they setup some extra filters that let pass some "very default"
> extensions for the assembly-mailinglists? Okay, and only if they are
> smaller then about 50kb. (examples/snippets of code, bigger than that?
> Don't think so...)

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[A86] Re: vertical scrolling

From: "Henk Poley" <HPoley@DDS.nl>