Re: GNKSA and Gnus

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> I often have to manually edit the references line when posting followups
> in gnu.misc.discuss in order to make INN accept it.  I guess it happens
> in gnu.misc.discuss because

> 1) The threads there are very deep.
> 2) There are a high fraction of Gnus users, thus none of the posters
>    software will restrict the header.

I stand corrected.

> ##  Maximum size of a single header.
> #### =()<MAXHEADERSIZE          @<MAXHEADERSIZE>@>()=
> MAXHEADERSIZE           1024

I believe this only affects headers which are not continued.  If one uses
continuation lines, headers can be much larger.  (Or that at least is my
understanding.)  Keep in mind that the version of Gnus that I'm using
still wraps References using continuation lines; I think Lars took that
out at some point?

It sounds like either the header wrapping code needs to be put back in or
Gnus needs to shorten the Reference headers it generates, in the short
term.  In the long term, I expect the new news RFC to require References
headers not be truncated.

> This is something Gravity does, and in general a good idea.  It migth
> make less sense for Gnus.  However, I think it would be nice if quoting
> would be restricted to the currently region in the messsage being
> quoted, iff `transient-message-mode' is on, and the region is active.

I still don't think this idea makes any sense.  But YMMV.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>