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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> > > > Signaling: (error "Invalid header: text/plain;")
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Applied to Gnus, this means that it should try to be as lax as
> > possible when parsing the headers (in the above case, it should ignore 
> > the semicolon and perhaps assume the charset is latin1), and ignore
> > them when they're totally bogus.
> 
> Yeah, but (in general) being tolerant is much, much work, because one
> has to guess, and guessing is boring.

Well, I'm not saying you should go out of your ways to interpret what
various moronic mailers *meant* to put in their headers; I'm saying
that it would be nice to handle some more, uh, wide-spread cases of
abuse.  The VM variables I posted contained several such examples.

> In this case, just ignoring the entire header would leave you with
> the default (text/plain; us-ascii), which is nice.

Yup.

> So I think (since I'm lazy) that Gnus should completely ignore
> invalid headers.

I agree, but I do argue for a laxer definition of invalid.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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