Re: Automatic part insertion: åäö and 吃哪塞 on the same line

[Kurt Swanson <ksw@dna.lth.se>]

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Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> However, if someone (inadvertantly) mixed (*really* mixed) Chinese and
>> Scandianvian (for instance, talking about two people who's names contain
>> characters from two different charsets), then that might result in that
>> someone (inadvertantly) sending out a really long and winding MIME
>> message that might be annoying for the non-Gnus recipient to receive...

>> Of course, MML might just ask the user whether to go ahead and multipart
>> away or not...

> "Warning:  Your message contains 37 parts.  Do you really want to send?"

> User settable warning limit.  That's what makes the most sense to me, just
> like the warnings about lines over 80 columns.

That sounds like the best solution - allows for experts to pass
through, warns dummies, and (probably) easily incorporates into the
existing structure of controls on message sending.

> (And as an aside, I am *really* impressed at the new MIME support.  So
> impressed that this is literally converting me from a MIME-hater to rather
> liking it, if it can do stuff this cool when well-programmed.  It makes me
> think that there really isn't anything that wrong with MIME, it's just
> that all the existing implementations suck.  Except, finally, one.)

Hear, hear!  I've even stopped saying "quoted-unreadable" and
"mime-encrypted".

Gnus is already, in my experience, the best the extensible,
customizable, self-documenting real-time display mail/news-reader
supporting mime.
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