From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T01:10:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Gateway is malfunctioning

On Dec 2, 2006, at 5:50 AM, F. Senault wrote:

> Le 2 d�cembre 2006 � 11:16, F. Senault a �crit :
>
>> Le 1 d�cembre 2006 � 23:30, James Edward Gray II a �crit :
>>
>>> On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:
>>
>>>>> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/227459
>>
>>>> I cannot see that it is a HTML posting - in fact, I do not see any
>>>> HTML in that posting.  Is it possible that the gateway rejects
>>>> multipart messages?  James, if you need the source (or what reached
>>>> my gmail box) let me know and I forward it to you.
>>
>> I'd like to see the whole raw message, headers included (my email is
>> valid, please attach the whole message, (g)zipped, or it will be  
>> bounced
>> by my _personal_ filters).
>
> Ok, Robert sent me what seemed to be the full message, and it's in  
> fact
> a message declared with a MIME content-type of multipart/ 
> alternative but
> only one part (text/plain).  This is quite absurd, and I'd suspect  
> that
> something, somewhere, decided to strip away the HTML part but leave  
> the
> MIME declaration intact.

Forgive my weak knowledge of email types here, but if someone sent a  
short message to the list with an attached Ruby script, would it be a  
multipart message?  If so, that would be rejected by the NNTP host?

James