From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Jun 09 2002 - 09:08:59 CDT
On Sun, 09 Jun 2002 00:43:25 -0400
"Chris Lewis" <clewis@pte.nortelnetworks.com> said...
> Seriously, I think care should be taken to stress that C news, when it
> encapsulated (which I suspect was in the minority of C news installs,
> and there certainly aren't many C news installations left anywhere),
> encapsulated "very stupid", nothing at all like what is proposed.
>
> It just put the article, as constructed by Pnews/inews/nntpd, into the
> body of the message - the news headers were just more text.
Indeed so, but that is exactly what is now proposed, except that a header
Content-Type: application/news-transmission
is to be added to the email (which, on some mailers, may make it simpler
to pick it up and send it on its way). It also means that the whole body
of the email can then be encoded in quoted-printable if the news article
contains 8bit characters (whether in its header or body) and the mail
system is not 8bit clean.
>
>
> [Keep in mind that there's actually two mime parts, the as-is Usenet
> headers, and the potentially multi-part body, that have to be
> encapsulated in a mail message. I fear the first time a moderator got
> one of these in, say, Unicode, their head'll burst ;-)]
No, the proposal as it stands is to encapsulate the complete news
article as a single entity (it may or may not have an internal MIME
structure, but that is invisible from outside). Note carefully the
difference between application/news-transmission and message/rfc822
(which does indeed expose the internal MIME structure of the message).
Application/news-transmission was registered with IANA by Henry several
years ago.
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