Re: Sending attachments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:44:51 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >> > And this is out of scope for mail-mode, which (AFAIK) does not support
> >> > news.
> >> 
> >> What exactly is the plan here?
> >
> > There is no plan (yet).  I was just trying to estimate the effort
> > needed for adding simple attachment facility to mail-mode.  Plans, if
> > there will be such, will come later.
> 
> So that would be the "let's add this one function now and
> deal with the real problem later" answer, yes?

Maybe, or maybe it will be a "let's do nothing" answer.

> The point was that real support for mime (as message-mode has today)
> can't be done piecemeal

I don't think anybody was talking about ``real support for MIME''.
People who managed to get away without MIME at all till this day
probably don't need more than a simple way of attaching non-text
files.