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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> 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.

I simply don't see the relevance of this.  MIME encapsulation is just
text.  Old newsreaders (including Gnus 5.7) can deal with text.

> These two complaints were easily solved by `S o p' doing "nice"
> forwards and `C-u S o p' doing "complete" forwards.  This worked
> nicely.

Yep, I think this would be a good idea.  The nice forwards could still
be MIME, with some headers filtered out.