Re: de .* and gnus-group-posting-charset-alist

[Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>]

Karl EICHWALDER <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:

> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> 
> |   Which means Gnus will be broken for some hierarchies where it
> |   currently works.
> 
> Some people might think so.  But it's that difficult to solve the
> problem:

The current (5.8.2) solution, to make the behaviour depend on
hierarchy, is close to perfect.  Rare occurences such as
cross-hierachy crossposting should not affect this decision.  Maybe
the default is wrong for de.*, but that should not mean that the new
German preferences should be forced into all other hierarchies.

> (PS. I do read mailinglists where people are used to post in non
>      standard encodings; this works for them quite well.  Because these
>      people aren't able to follow good internet standards, I
>      (resp. Gnus) was forced to work around the problem.  As it stands,
>      Gnus is broken for some mailinglist -- to follow your
>      argumentation.)

Of course, mailing list conventions are even more subject to the
owners wishes than local hierarchies.  The owner usually prefer a
solution that works best for the users over a solution that follows
the words of some arbitrary standard.  Which is how it should be.