Recent Emacs thingies

I started using gnus at work.

Started using emacs-snapshot-gtk package (from Debian). And a win32 build of emacs 22.0.50 at work.

Wrote some elisp to send multipart alternative (for html mail and plain text). This
needs some fixing though; It does not put the content-type for the plain text part and
many mail clients would not would not show the plain-text content.

Learned about putting window configuration in registers (I could not stop telling
people about it for a couple of hours). Now I don’t use frames (at-least I for the reason
I had before this piece of learning).

I am all sold out on Emacs.

HTML Mail

BTW, do not think that I am for HTML mail. Its just that the M$ outlook and many other clients (and Gmail) show plain text in variable width fonts (when I want fixed width font to show off my ascii-art signature). They say HTML mail is rude.

Recent findings

Just found that the ‘netiquette guidelines‘ is an RFC ! and that (mail) clients are supposed to
assume the ‘default’ Content-Type (which is text/plain with us-ascii encoding) as per
RFC 2045 (Sec 5.2 – let me know if I did not read it enough). I wonder why that Thunder-bird was not showing the plain text alternative in my gnus made mail. The only problem that is apparent is the absence of Content-Type.

OT: Scott Adam’s blog is here.