>> "Nick" == Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

   > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
   >> > The error is[fn:1]:
   >> 
   >> I am sorry, this is also the fault of
   >> gnus-dired-attach 
   >> 
   >> Which by default uses this type of attachment, I have to look into it,
   >> how to change it on demand.
   >> 
   >> 

   > gnus-dired-attach uses mm-default-file-encoding to figure things out.

I tried to generalize this function so that it optionally takes the type
as an argument. Too complicated.
   > That in turn calls mailcap-extension-to-mime which uses your mailcap
   > file (see the mailcap man page) and the file extension. If you give your
   > backtrace files a .txt extension, chances are good that they will end up
   > with mime type "text/plain". Evaluate this to make sure:

right, or even save it as .el would do the trick,