Re: Brian May's `Re: Bugs in PGnus' article jams Gnus

[Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

>>>>> "H" == Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> writes:

H> Greetings,
H> Any attempt to read that article results in jam in my Emacs 20.3
H> with Gnus from CVS with file versions shown below.  If I break it
H> with debug-on-quit enabled (after waiting about one minute or so),
H> I get the following backtrace.

[...]

H> Once I managed to get a backtrace that had one call more, which was
H> something like `generate-new-buffer(" *mm<820>*")', but I haven't
H> been able to replicate that.

There are 606 parts in the message! Gnus takes time to decode them.

H> It may be that the mail forwarder thing I'm using has broken it (it
H> has modified encodings from 8bit to base64), but I don't know MIME
H> enough to say for sure.  But even if it is broken, I think Gnus
H> shouldn't jam on it.

[...]

I believe mail forwarder did not do anything wrong. On the quimby's
newsgroup, the message is encoded in 8bit and has no modification
notes, which means the orignal message got 606 parts.

The question is whether Gnus jammed Brian May's `Re: Bugs in PGnus'
article. I believe it did. I guess Gnus could not figure out what
charset should be used, then divided the article into parts.

-- 
Shenghuo