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From: Matthias Wiehl <mwiehl@gmx.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: My From header causes strange effects
Date: 25 Oct 2000 17:04:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873dhlc67f.fsf@fulmine.dhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vaf4s21jf63.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>

On 25 Oct 2000, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> My From header looks like this:
> 
> From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjoha?=
> =?iso-8859-1?q?nn?=)

Which is, as far as I can tell, a correctly encoded header value.

> This causes many followups to my messages to start with:
> 
>     Kai Großjoha nn writes

I've seen such an attribution in an article that was posted using
"knews".  I experienced that this program quite frequently does
strange things with article headers (especially with qp-encoded ones),
so my opinion on this would be that Gnus is not to blame here.
-- 
Matthias Wiehl <mwiehl@gmx.de> * <http://linux.unixcity.de/mwiehl/>



  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-25 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-25 12:09 Kai Großjohann
2000-10-25 15:04 ` Matthias Wiehl [this message]
2000-10-25 21:45   ` Kai Großjohann
2000-10-25 23:06     ` ShengHuo ZHU
2000-10-27 22:35     ` Matthias Wiehl
2000-10-25 15:48 ` Paul Jarc

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