[Pan-users] Re: Weirdness with multipart posts containing images

[walt]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:35:24 -0400, Keith Richie wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Jim Henderson
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:22:43 +0000, walt wrote:
>>
>>  > On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:57:12 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>  >
>>  >> Other times, pan prompts me to save the image rather than viewing
>>  >> it; if I right-click the message in the header pane, I can select
>>  >> "read message" and it'll display properly.

>>  > ...the decision is
>>  > based on the type of attachment, the number of lines in the
>>  > attachment, and the name of the newsgroup....

> In this case, it doesn't have anything to do with the number of lines,
> nor attachment type. The post in question has 7044 lines with a .jpg
> attachment. In the same group there is a 23841 line jpg which can be
> read without being prompted for download...

Interesting, I never noticed before that pan cares about the size of
the *parts* of the image, which in this particular case is 23841 lines
divided by five parts, thus making each part less than 5000 lines.
I'd have to consider that a bug, actually :o)