>>>>> In <ufu0wuicqb.fsf@d-fens.mopniei.ru>
>>>>>	"Ilya N. Golubev" <gin@mo.msk.ru> wrote:

> Gnus v5.10.6
> `(mml-to-mime)' marks type="application/emacs-lisp" body parts with

> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

> header even if body part data is pure ascii.
> Even explicit `encoding=7bit' MML tag does not change this.

2001-07-24 12:00:00  ShengHuo ZHU  <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>

	* mm-encode.el (mm-encode-buffer): Don't use 7bit encoding if
	there are long lines.

I couldn't find the reason why it was needed.  Anyone?
See the following parts in the " *Original Article*" buffer.