In article <041120091844084030%[email protected]>, Dave Miller
<[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Eddy Nigg
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On 11/04/2009 11:13 PM, Dave Miller:
> > >
> > > Giganews says the original message got nailed as a binary post because
> > > of the included base64-encoded SSL certificate.
> > >    
> > 
> > Specially on these news groups this can happen from time to time. Is 
> > this something which can be fixed?
> 
> Not unless we host it all ourselves (which has been discussed, and will
> probably happen someday, but not anytime soon probably.

Actually, looks like it is getting fixed.  I just got this from
Giganews support:

----8<----
I agree, it was a false positive.  The SSL cert looked enough like
mime-encoded data to trip the filter.  I've asked our programmers to
look into tightening the filter to prevent this in the future.
----8<----

-- 
Dave Miller
Systems Administrator, Mozilla Corporation
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