From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58207 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: missing Mime-Version and format=flowed Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:26:09 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091798856 17284 80.91.224.253 (6 Aug 2004 13:27:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6748@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Aug 06 15:27:27 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bt4kp-0004x7-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:27:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bt4jr-0002ug-00; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:26:27 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bt4jk-0002ua-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:26:20 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Bt4jj-0000Yh-JH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:26:19 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78BE33A003E for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:26:16 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bt4jf-0006u8-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:26:15 +0200 Original-Received: from c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se ([217.215.27.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:26:15 +0200 Original-Received: from jas by c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:26:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7AfZc4MKAT9W+8CakCP7V4yuI3s= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58207 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58207 Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes: > On Fri, Aug 06 2004, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote: > >> I'm using the value t for the gnus-article-loose-mime variable >> and I can see those articles correctly. > > Thanks. I should have checked the Fine Manual for `MIME-Version'. ;-) > > ,----[ (info "(gnus)MIME Commands") ] > | `gnus-article-loose-mime' > | If non-`nil', Gnus won't require the `MIME-Version' header before > | interpreting the message as a MIME message. This helps when > | reading messages from certain broken mail user agents. The > | default is `nil'. > `---- What harm would there be if the default for this variable was `t'? If the variable is only used for interpretation, it seems to me that the default should be to give the user as good experience as possible. Even with broken input, unless that has other bad consequences. Which here would seem to argue for changing the default to `t'.