Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-17 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , cmad...@hiwaay.net (Chris Adams) wrote: > Once upon a time, Mark Andrews said: > > I've raised a ticket with our ops people. > > While you are at it, could you see about fixing the Usenet threading? > It appears messages from the mail-to-news gateway get the Message-ID: > chan

Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <_aednq2trrolj9runz2dnuvz_tlin...@posted.hiwaay2>, Chris Adams write s: > Once upon a time, Mark Andrews said: > > I've raised a ticket with our ops people. > > While you are at it, could you see about fixing the Usenet threading? > It appears messages from the mail-to-news gatew

Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Mark Andrews said: > I've raised a ticket with our ops people. While you are at it, could you see about fixing the Usenet threading? It appears messages from the mail-to-news gateway get the Message-ID: changed (often a bad idea) BUT the gateway doesn't update the Referen

Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Sam Wilson wri tes: > In article , > Chris Buxton wrote: > > > On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: > > > The old mail-to-news gateway either got this right or > > > extracted the plain text alternative before forwarding. > > > > The old mail server stripped message

Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-15 Thread Sam Wilson
In article , Chris Buxton wrote: > On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: > > The old mail-to-news gateway either got this right or > > extracted the plain text alternative before forwarding. > > The old mail server stripped messages down to their plaintext values. > The new one

Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-15 Thread Sam Wilson
In article , sch...@adi.com (Thomas Schulz) wrote: > I was wondering what was going on. Some messages are just base64 and are > completely useless/unreadable. If you have mimencode you could try this: $ mimencode -u > /tmp/weird ; less /tmp/weird On Mac OS X and other systems with the right

Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-12 Thread Chris Buxton
On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: The old mail-to-news gateway either got this right or extracted the plain text alternative before forwarding. The old mail server stripped messages down to their plaintext values. The new one does not - it allows both formatted text and atta

Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-12 Thread Thomas Schulz
In article , Sam Wilson wrote: >In article , > Barry Margolin 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 gro

Re: MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-12 Thread Sam Wilson
In article , Barry Margolin 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

MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

2008-12-12 Thread Barry Margolin
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 appea