MIME garbage in comp.protocols.dns.bind

[Sam Wilson]

In article <ghtjng$2pdi$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Barry Margolin <barmar at 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$1f87$1 at sf1.isc.org>
[2] <news:ghtbae$2er0$1 at sf1.isc.org>