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

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

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen