From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2006-12-05T19:20:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Gateway is malfunctioning

Le 2 d�cembre 2006 � 22:11, James Edward Gray II a �crit :

> On Dec 2, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Ross Bamford wrote:
> 
>> Assuming that the base64 encoding was done to cope with UTF8 in the  
>> source, is there no way we can improve the distribution situation?
> 
> Here's what I said to Fred on the subject:
> 
> "I'm guessing we could get radical and read incoming emails with an  
> email library, then use that to compose a sensical Usenet post.  That  
> way we could pull the text section of a multipart/alternative  
> message.  Attachments are trickier and I guess we would have to  
> inline them.  That would work for simple Ruby scripts, but it gets  
> more complicated when someone posts something like a zipped archive  
> file.

This path leads to the Dark Side (tm) : content mangling of a message
(even if it's transcoding).  It's usually considered very bad mojo to
touch anything else than the headers...

(At least, I'll have someone to blame if I typo something in a post...
:P)

> There would still be situations it couldn't handle, but maybe we  
> could reduce them.  This sure sounds like work though.  ;)

Yep.  I'm not sure there are any good fast libraries to treat MIME, and
transfer-encodings out there ?

> I'm considering making the Gateway code public now that I have  
> rewritten it.  Maybe this will encourage enterprising souls to hack  
> on it a bit for features like this."

That's definitely a good idea.

> We just need to remember that we are joining two worlds with  
> different rules here.

What he said.
 
> James Edward Gray II

Fred
-- 
So sorry your world is tumbling down
I will watch you through these nights
Rest your head and go to sleep                       (Within Temptation,
Because my child, this is not our farewell                 Our Farewell)