In article <ghtmfl$2rc...@sf1.isc.org>, Sam Wilson <sam.wil...@ed.ac.uk> wrote: >In article <ghtjng$2pd...@sf1.isc.org>, > Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> 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:ghs3de$1f8...@sf1.isc.org> >[2] <news:ghtbae$2er...@sf1.isc.org>
I was wondering what was going on. Some messages are just base64 and are completely useless/unreadable. -- Tom Schulz sch...@adi.com _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users