Re: mx.gnus.org being very strict

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>:

> If the destination mailer doesn't adhere to the standard, it will
> have a hard time displaying conformant mail.

I don't understand what you mean by "destination mailer".  If it is
the final MTA, then the statement doesn't make sense to me.

If it's the destination MUA, then there are two ways of adhering to
the standard:
 1. strictly adhering to the standard, and refusing all mesasages that
    don't fit
 2. adhering to the standard, but put some configurable best guess on
    the messages that don't (in Norway that would typically be to
    display messages with 8bit characters and no MIME markup, as 
     text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1)

It sounds to me that you're advocating alternative 1.

To me, alternative 2 is the only sensible approach.