# HG changeset patch
# User markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
# Date 1340569938 -7200
# Node ID 4e6a9ae1b53cf2c7b2e3d2f58a0afa4b4fa1e7db
# Parent  8800dbbaedc5eaa2b870f16a33fd6107b7d89e8c
Added a bit of text on modern defaults; plus added code refs.

diff -r 8800dbbaedc5 -r 4e6a9ae1b53c discussion.roff
--- a/discussion.roff	Sun Jun 24 22:00:16 2012 +0200
+++ b/discussion.roff	Sun Jun 24 22:32:18 2012 +0200
@@ -2062,6 +2062,7 @@
 a text part with possibly attachments.
 This case is simplified a lot for users.
 
+
 .U3 "MIME Type Guessing
 .P
 The use of
@@ -2085,9 +2086,10 @@
 Mmh implements this approach in the
 .Pn print-mimetype
 script.
+.Ci 4b5944268ea0da7bb30598a27857304758ea9b44
 Using it is the default choice.
 .P
-A far better but less portable approach is the use of
+A far better, though less portable, approach is the use of
 .Pn file .
 This standard tool tries to determine the type of files.
 Unfortunately, its capabilities and accuracy varies from system to system.
@@ -2104,6 +2106,7 @@
 .Pn file ,
 version 5.04 or higher, is available it should be used.
 One needs to specify the following profile entry to do so:
+.Ci 3baec236a39c5c89a9bda8dbd988d643a21decc6
 .VS
 Mime-Type-Query: file -b --mime
 VE
@@ -2245,12 +2248,30 @@
 .H2 "Digital Cryptography
 .P
 Signing and encryption.
+.P
+FIXME
 
 
 
 .H2 "Modern Defaults
 .P
-Just to give one example, for me it took one year of using nmh
+Nmh has a bunch of convenience-improving features available,
+but they are inactive by default.
+The user needs to activate them.
+Today one can expect every new user to want to have them available.
+The reason they are inactive by default is the wish to stay compatible
+with old versions.
+Surprisingly, the community seems not to care that the highly useful
+draft folder still is not available by default although it had been
+introduced over twenty-five years ago.
+.[
+rose romine real work
+.]
+This is one of several examples that require new users to first
+build up an extensive profile in order to convert the default
+nmh installation into a convenient state.
+.P
+To give an example, it took one year of using nmh
 before I became aware of the existence of the attachment system.
 One could argue that this fact disqualifies my reading of the
 documentation.