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Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> > Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> >>> 1) Forwarding things as message/rfc822 allows automatic extraction by
> >>>    MIME-compliant news/mail readers.
> 
> >> ...and many news readers are not MIME compliant, Gnus <= 5.8.x
> >> included.
> 
> > Yes, but a message/rfc822 multipart looks no uglier than a traditional
> > forward.
> 
> Unless it's being read by someone who uses a newsreader that pipes
> everything that it thinks is MIME through metamail.  Like, say, trn.

I just tried it, metamail stripped the mime boundaries and the
"boring" headers.  This should be ok in most cases, as long as the
newsreader also allows you to see the "raw" message.  I'd be very
surprised if trn doesn't allow that.