From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-10-29T12:23:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Enhancing the Gateway (Help Needed)

On Oct 28, 2007, at 6:39 PM, Bill Kelly wrote:

>
> From: "James Edward Gray II" <james@grayproductions.net>
>> 1.  If possible, we should gather all text/plain portions of an  
>> email  and post those with a content-type of text/plain
>
> Do we get many HTML-only messages, having a text/html part, without a
> corresponding text/plain part?

I know I have seen it at least once in the past.  I suspect it's  
rare, but that's just me guessing.  When dealing with the Internet at  
large, I think we always need to be prepared for the worst case  
scenario.

> Or is that too uncommon to worry about?

You made a good point here that I should try looking at some actual  
Ruby Talk messages to see what we're up against.  I'll put together a  
script to comb through a subset of the archives…

James Edward Gray II