request for plain text mailing howto

[janneke@gnu.org]

Hi List,

For two weeks now, I've been trying out gnus as a replacement for
(n)mh.  First I used 5.7 from plain debian's emacs-20.7); last week I
upgraded to 5.8.7 as you can see.  I very much like being in Emacs for
hacking and mailing alike (I found mh-e not very usable).

While it's nice that 5.8.7 has support for (idiots that send me) mime
and other stuff, I'm just a programmer and I'd like all magic turned
off by default (like 5.7 had?).

Now, howto do that?

I've already added 

        ;; AARGH
        (setq gnus-treat-emphasize nil)
        (setq gnus-treat-fill-article nil)
        (setq gnus-treat-overstrike nil)
        (setq gnus-treat-dumbquotes nil)

to my .gnus.el file to turn off some evil (imho) textformatting stuff,
but today I found gnus mangling a patch that I sent.  First, it
apparently did this:

	diff -urN ../lilypond-1.3.102/CHANGES ./CHANGES
	--- ../lilypond-1.3.102/CHANGES	Wed Nov  1 17:55:44 2000
	+++ ./CHANGES	Thu Nov  2 15:53:01 2000
	@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
	+1.3.102.jcn1
	+=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
	+

After the recipient saved my mail (using X-Mailer: VM 6.76 under Emacs
20.7.1), the mangling seemed to be gone, but he got:

        ...
        patching file ./buildscripts/tfm2afm.scm
        patch: **** malformed patch at line 192: cript_correction]]]]]

So, I had to resend it using nmh.  Maybe I *should* use attachments,
but I don't like that.

It would be very helpful if someone could point me to a complete list
of magic text mangling options.

Thanks Gnus,
Greetings,
Jan.

-- 
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org