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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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