Re: forwarding as text rather than MIME?

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> 1) Forwarding things as message/rfc822 allows automatic extraction by
>    MIME-compliant news/mail readers.

...and many news readers are not MIME compliant, Gnus <= 5.8.x
included.

> 2) A typical complaint when forwarding using the old scheme was that
>    not all headers were included, which meant that when people
>    forwarded things to complain about spam, none of the important
>    headers (Path/Received/etc) were included.
> 
> 3) A typical complaint when forwarding message/rfc822 messages is that 
>    all the headers are included, which means that when people forward
>    mail to each other, they get a bunch of useless headers
>    (Path/Received/etc) they have to scroll through (if their
>    news/maill reader don't handle that).

These two complaints were easily solved by `S o p' doing "nice"
forwards and `C-u S o p' doing "complete" forwards.  This worked
nicely.

> To sum these considerations up, I think that message/rfc822 is the
> right thing to do, and perhaps more importantly, it's The Thing Of
> The Future.  And I think that perhaps by pushing this, we might make
> the future happen a bit sooner.

Uh-oh.