Re: bad rfc2047 encoding

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Aug 21 2002, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:
[...]
>>> (I'm reading the gnus bugs list from quimby.gnus.org, which
>>> removes To/Cc so when I reply it only goes to the author and
>>> bugs@gnus.org.)
>>
>> That seems unfortunate.  People reporting bugs will potentially miss
>> discussion.
>
> It appears I was wrong, quimby.gnus.org does not alter headers, at
> least the last few messages CC bug-gnu-emacs properly, but the
> original submission did not.

Dave's first message had bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org in the To-Header, not
in the Cc as the next ones. The posting script on quimby changes the
"To:" to "Original-To:":

| From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
| Newsgroups: gnus.gnus-bug
| Cc: bugs@gnus.org
| Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

The reason for this was ...

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| From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
| Subject: Re: gnus-summary-edit-article and wrapped From-line
| Newsgroups: gnus.ding
| Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:37:09 +0100
| Message-ID: <m3bsggjsoq.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
| Original-To: ding@gnus.org
| 
| Reiner Steib <reiner.steib@gmx.de> writes:
| 
| > BTW, the parent article <m37kr5ci6y.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> is not
| > available on news.gnus.org:
| 
| Looking at the logs, it was rejected because I inserted a To header,
| leading to the article getting two To headers.  Would it be more
| reasonable if `C-c C-t' inserted a Cc header instead?
| 
| Anyway, I've now had the posting script rename To to Original-To.
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Bye, Reiner.
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