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From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
Subject: Re: Prolem with attachments.
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:09:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a503pb$9li$1@quimby2.netfonds.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y9hoz7e3.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> (Daniel Pittman's message of "Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:04:36 +1100")

commence  Daniel Pittman quotation:

> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> But why  should it send it  in parts ?  
> Because there are /still/ a lot of email gateways that bounce large
> messages or, worse, drop them silently or return a permanent fatal
> error when one is sent through them.
>
>> When is asked the question, I thought about multipart ?
> Maybe you could suggest a better way of phrasing a question that means:
>
>         Should Gnus split this message up into smaller parts
>         for transmission to avoid problems with mail gateways?

How about simply "Send as multiple multiple messages?"?  "No" might be
a sensible default, given the prevalance of broken MUAs.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-20 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-20  9:35 Matthieu Moy
2002-02-20  9:46 ` Sebastian D.B. Krause
2002-02-20  9:46 ` Sebastian D.B. Krause
2002-02-20  9:51   ` Matthieu Moy
2002-02-20  9:51   ` Matthieu Moy
2002-02-20 12:04     ` Daniel Pittman
2002-02-20 12:04     ` Daniel Pittman
2002-02-20 12:09       ` Sean Neakums [this message]
2002-02-20 12:09       ` Sean Neakums
2002-02-20 12:13         ` Sean Neakums
2002-02-20 12:13         ` Sean Neakums
2002-02-20 12:24         ` Matthieu Moy
2002-02-20 12:24         ` Matthieu Moy
2002-02-20 12:18     ` Karl Kleinpaste
2002-02-20 12:18     ` Karl Kleinpaste
2002-02-20 14:14     ` Frank Tegtmeyer
2002-02-20 15:25       ` Jesper Harder
2002-02-20 15:25       ` Jesper Harder
2002-02-20 20:37       ` Kai Großjohann
2002-02-20 20:37       ` Kai Großjohann
2002-02-20 14:14     ` Frank Tegtmeyer
2002-02-20 13:11 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2002-02-20 13:11 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2002-02-20  9:35 Matthieu Moy

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