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Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net> writes:

> If you do not try to post using latin1/15, many a lot readers are not
> that happy with your postings.

And rightly so.  RFC 2046 (section 4.1.2) says that you should use »the
"lowest common denominator" character set possible.« 

Clearly, UTF-8 doesn't comply with this.

> I also observed that even more users don't set the Mime headers at
> all!  And Gnus assumes UTF-8 for those postings

That sounds like a bug.  How can I reproduce it?