From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T02:05:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Gateway is malfunctioning

On Dec 2, 2006, at 10:55 AM, F. Senault wrote:

> 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"

Am I understanding right Fred that your filters do allow multipart/ 
mixed?

I ask because I cannot find that the following message was moved to  
Usenet:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/226884

But here is the Content-Type header from that message:

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-nN7cXnGaqHsTLxonszcP"

James Edward Gray II