In article <[email protected]>, Barry Margolin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone still read this list via the comp.protocols.dns.bind Usenet > gateway? I do, and ever since the web site and mailing list revamp last > month, it has been a real PITA. About 1/3 of the messages in the group > have all sorts of MIME garbage in the body of the messages. The problem > appears to be that the "Content-type: multipart/alternative" header line > is being stripped from the header by the gateway; actually, it ends up > in the body of the message. As a result, my newsreader doesn't > recognize that the message is multipart, and shows all the pieces > literally. > > You can see the same thing if you view the messages in Google Groups, so > it's not just my news provider (Motzarella) or newsreader > (MT-Newswatcher). The old mail-to-news gateway either got this right or > extracted the plain text alternative before forwarding. > > I sent mail to bind-users-request a few weeks ago, but got no response. > Is this bugging anyone else but me? Yes, it's bugging me. I use MT-Newswatcher (Mac OS X) and whilst I can cope with the multipart/alternative hassle (just stop reading where it turns into HTML - see [1]) the ones that really annoy me are the base64 encoded messages like [2]. I'm clearly less conscientious than Barry - I haven't complained before now. Sam [1] <news:[email protected]> [2] <news:[email protected]> _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
