Russ Allbery writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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. -- © 1998 Kurt Swanson AB (ksw@dna.lth.se) .