From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T01:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Gateway is malfunctioning

Le 2 d�cembre 2006 � 17:10, James Edward Gray II a �crit :

> On Dec 2, 2006, at 5:50 AM, F. Senault wrote:
> 
>> Le 2 d�cembre 2006 � 11:16, F. Senault a �crit :

>>> 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?

Yes, but it won't be multipart/alternative (which means different
representations of the same data, nearly universally HTML + plain text),
more likely multipart/mixed (simply different parts).

For instance, with a quick search, I found this one :

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/227642

Which has been gated correctly, as it has :

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c"

(But it lacks the MIME-Version header, which is, AFAICR, mandatory, if
quite useless...)
 
> James

Fred
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