Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:05:43 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:

> I think nobody calls automatic execution of attachments ``a good handling''
> nowadays. IMHO a good handling means simply recognizing attachments and
> providing ways to view them without feeding entire message to uuedecode
> or the like.

If you need to perform any extra operation to look at text sent as an 
attachment, that is an irritation I'd be happy to avoid.  Since
automatic extraction is dangerous, I don't have any choice but to
perform that operation whenever I get attachment which I cannot ignore.

All I need to do in Emacs is to type some suitable key sequence and view 
the file in another buffer.  But it still annoys me to do that, 
especially since I get many messages per day that I need to read.