From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18915 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.46 is released Date: 18 Nov 1998 16:57:55 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157358 8781 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:42:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:42:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA02454 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 00:23:56 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAB06929; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:23:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:23:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA18910 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:23:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from jupiter.rtsq.qc.ca (rtsq.grics.qc.ca [199.84.132.81]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA02405 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 00:23:05 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from ariel.progiciels-bpi.ca by jupiter.rtsq.qc.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA18055 for <@jupiter.rtsq.qc.ca:ding@gnus.org>; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 00:22:35 -0500 Original-Received: from icule.progiciels-bpi.ca (uucp@localhost) by ariel.progiciels-bpi.ca (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI) via UUCP id AAA26525 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 00:24:08 -0800 Original-Received: by icule.progiciels-bpi.ca (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA08772; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 16:57:56 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "b_m|CE6#'Q8fliQrwHl9K,]PA_o'*S~Dva{~b1n*)K*A(BIwQW.:LY?t4~xhYka_.LV?Qq `}X|71X0ea&H]9Dsk!`kxBXlG;q$mLfv_vtaHK_rHFKu]4'<*LWCyUe@ZcI6"*wB5M@[m writes: > Is it common to send multipart messages that only contain a single part? Not really common, yet I remember having (softly :-) complained to a few of my correspondents who were always doing that. > Why would people do that? Presumably because they do not have full control over their MUAs? > > And how 'bout decoding the ugly `=?ISO...?=' encodings that appear in > > headers of some messages, particularly ones posted with TM/SEMI? > I haven't seen any Q encodings of headers in eons. Could you give us > an example? Do you mean RFC1522 (now RFC2070, if not mistaken)? Even if ugly, these address a real need. Of course, you'll more likely see B for messages showing Asian names, but for Latin languages sharing many letters with the English alphabet, Q is still likely to occur. -- François Pinard mailto:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca Join the free Translation Project! http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard