From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 18 09:51:06 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA22545 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Feb 1995 09:51:06 -0800 Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA22538; Sat, 18 Feb 1995 09:50:55 -0800 Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA28705 (5.67a/IDA-1.5); Sat, 18 Feb 1995 11:23:12 -0600 Received: by bonkers.taronga.com (smail2.5p) id AA23101; 18 Feb 95 10:55:08 CST (Sat) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA23098; Sat, 18 Feb 1995 10:55:07 -0600 Message-Id: <199502181655.KAA23098@bonkers.taronga.com> X-Authentication-Warning: bonkers.taronga.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: query-pr. please! In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Feb 95 07:34:54 PST." <19469.793121694@freefall.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.4.1 7/21/94 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 10:55:06 -0600 From: Peter da Silva Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > But what about attachments? > > make a uuencoded tarball and stick it in one of the unformatted > > text fields. > My point is that this should NOT BE A NECESSARY STEP FOR THE USER. I > want something that wraps around the whole thing and makes it > something the user does on a file by file basis with NO underlying > knowlege about how we decide we want it packaged that week. Oh, I thought you were talking about the underlying mechanism. I thought you were talking about the mechanism because of the reference to MIME, since MIME is transport rather than interface. Of course you want to pretty it up (did I mention TkGnats? I'll look at libforms, but no promises... I'm busy trying to make TkGnats conform to company style and policy guides :-P), but I don't think MIME is the way to go for something like this... for one thing MIME confuses GNATS pretty badly if you actually try to send it a multipart (trust me on this one).