From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28336 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl EICHWALDER Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: de .* and gnus-group-posting-charset-alist Date: 19 Dec 1999 19:23:12 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87ogbwjtpw.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <87so15xmug.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F1FD051E for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:31:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAB10676; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 13:30:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 19 Dec 1999 13:30:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15515 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 13:29:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from rachael.franken.de (rachael.franken.de [193.175.24.38]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C31D051E for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:29:34 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by rachael.franken.de via sendmail with stdio id for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 20:29:25 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built DST-Sep-8) Original-Received: from chico.franken.de(193.175.24.33) via SMTP by rachael.franken.de, id smtpdAAAa00134; Sun Dec 19 20:29:00 1999 Original-Received: by chico.franken.de with UUCP for abraham@dina.kvl.dk id m11zm0q-005CiJC; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 20:29:00 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id 55FDDDC244; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 19:23:12 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Per Abrahamsen In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of "19 Dec 1999 11:47:46 +0100" Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28336 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28336 Per Abrahamsen 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: Follow the written standards (RFCs) as close as possible. If the standards let room for interpretation, don't change Gnus if the feature is already implemented (at least wait until the "next" release of Gnus). Make it easy for the user to customize the tool (NEWS, README, *.texi). (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.) -- work : ke@suse.de | : http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ------ ,__o personal: ke@gnu.franken.de | ------ _-\_<, : http://www.franken.de/users/gnu/ke/ | ------ (*)/'(*)