From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21560 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hrvoje Niksic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: forwarding as text rather than MIME? Date: 26 Feb 1999 12:48:19 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87ww15fksc.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> References: <87hfsnl7ys.fsf@graaff.xs4all.nl> <87lnhtcstr.fsf@graaff.xs4all.nl> <87k8xb1r6t.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> <87d832uyf9.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159641 23582 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:20:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:20:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA04544 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 06:51:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAB09112; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 05:49:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 26 Feb 1999 05:49:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA05248 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 05:49:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from pc-hrvoje.srce.hr (mail@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr [161.53.2.132]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA04518 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 06:48:53 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from hniksic by pc-hrvoje.srce.hr with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 10GLkh-0000OV-00; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:48:19 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Hrvoje X-Face: &{dT~)Pu6V<0y?>3p$;@vh\`C7xB~A0T-J%Og)J,@-1%q6Q+, gs<-9M#&`I8cJp2b1{vPE|~+JE+gx;a7%BG{}nY^ehK1"q#rG O,Rn1A_Cy%t]V=Brv7h 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.