From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T01:37:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Gateway is malfunctioning

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 01:10 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2006, at 5:50 AM, F. Senault wrote:
> 
> > Le 2 décembre 2006 à 11:16, F. Senault a écrit :
> >
> >> Le 1 décembre 2006 à 23:30, James Edward Gray II a écrit :
> >>
> >>> 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?

I have a feeling this is what is, or at least was, happening - I wasn't
going to say anything (since it was prior to December first) but I
noticed that posts with attachments never made it across. 

ruby-talk 226884, for example, doesn't appear to have made it to the
newsgroup.

-- 
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk