This report is based on an email I sent to Charles; he has requested I make
it into a bug report.

Hi James,

Could you fill out a bug report for this request so that it doesn't
get lost?  I'll set it for a 0.12.1 milestone.

cheers,
Charles

On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 08:20:36PM +0100, James Green wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'd like to request a feature based on a problem I see.
> 
> When viewing a binary newsgroup, one based on images, sometimes sets of
> images can be posted with each post having more than one part. You can
> end up with posts like:
> 
> foo.jpg (1/2)
> 
> When you click it, you download only the first part. This seems like the
> "right thing to do" from a technical standpoint, however the user has to
> decode both parts and view from his hard disk the image, which isn't
> very helpful.
> 
> How about coding pan such that if the binary attachment if an image
> (determined by filename extension), -all- parts are downloaded to the
> cache and run through the decoder to view the actual image 'inline'?
> 
> That would be so much more useful and less frustrating than it is today.