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Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> >>>>> "R" == Rene H Larsen <renehl@post1.tele.dk> writes:
> 
> R> If you, like me, have problems with binary attachments in pGnus being
> R> encoded as quoted printable instead of in base64, this may help you.
> [...]
> R> This does not fix the underlying problem, but should merely be
> R> regarded as a workaround.
> 
> I guess your solution is not appropriate. Why not try the following
> code in your .gnus?
> 
> (setq mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults
>   '(("text/x-patch" 8bit)
>     ("text/.*" qp-or-base64)
>     ("message/rfc822" 8bit)
>     ("application/emacs-lisp" 8bit)
>     ("application/x-patch" 8bit)
>     (".*" base64)))

This is much nicer, thanks.  My workaround was just a desperate try at 
solving an immediate problem.

Why is something like this not the default, by the way?  It doesn't
make sense to QP encode most binary formats since newlines might be
screwed up at the receiving end.
-- 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
for(0..12){$b[$_]="|".($_==6?"-":" ")x78}for(0..78){substr($b[-
(sin($_*3.1415/22)-1)*6.499],$_,1)="*"}print join "\n",@b,"";