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From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: missing Mime-Version and format=flowed
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:38:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rjisbwpc0j.fsf@sheridan.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilu657wcs9a.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 06 2004, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>>
>>> I'm using the value t for the gnus-article-loose-mime variable
>>> and I can see those articles correctly.
>>
>> Thanks.  I should have checked the Fine Manual for `MIME-Version'. ;-)
>>
>> ,----[ (info "(gnus)MIME Commands") ]
>> | `gnus-article-loose-mime'
>> |      If non-`nil', Gnus won't require the `MIME-Version' header before
>> |      interpreting the message as a MIME message.  This helps when
>> |      reading messages from certain broken mail user agents.  The
>> |      default is `nil'.
>> `----
>
> What harm would there be if the default for this variable was `t'?

And why would anyone set it to nil?  

Maybe Gnus could do with one less variable, and obey the "be liberal in
what you accept" maxim.




  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-06 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-06 10:06 Reiner Steib
2004-08-06 10:33 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-08-06 11:22   ` Reiner Steib
2004-08-06 13:26     ` Simon Josefsson
2004-08-06 14:38       ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
2004-08-06 14:57         ` Simon Josefsson

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