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>>>>> Fran=E7ois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>:

> It is surely sad that so many messages use that
> application/octet-stream as a catch-all type.  As a user receiving
> many such messages, I would prefer that Gnus does not make me more
> sad than the situation is already.  It could help better, and the
> little code I submitted is an attempt in that direction.

Hm... indeed.  If it did, I would lose one of the two reasons I
currently have for dragging my heels wrt. a switch to IMAP: editing
the MIME types of attachments (the other one is reparenting of
articles, both are related to article editing).