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

[Karl EICHWALDER <ke@gnu.franken.de>]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

|   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.

Thinking about it again, I've to admit that you are right -- sorry for
making noise ;)

|   Maybe the default is wrong for de.*, but that should not mean that
|   the new German preferences should be forced into all other
|   hierarchies.

Yes, difficult question -- I don't know what we want.  My wish is to
follow the standard as close as possible (= no 8bit header lines).  At
least, we've to make sure that courtesy copies are properly encoded.
There are quite a lot "firewall" configurations out there which reject
mails with 8bit subject lines.

|   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.

Nice theory ;)  Once I complained other participants signaled that they
didn't like 8bit postings.  It's a strange, strange world.

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