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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> > 1) Forwarding things as message/rfc822 allows automatic extraction by
> >    MIME-compliant news/mail readers.
> 
> ...and many news readers are not MIME compliant, Gnus <= 5.8.x
> included.

Yes, but a message/rfc822 multipart looks no uglier than a traditional 
forward.

> These two complaints were easily solved by `S o p' doing "nice"
> forwards and `C-u S o p' doing "complete" forwards.  This worked
> nicely.

Yes.  But people don't use the `C-u' command forms.

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