Re: Header for identifying binary messages - which one to use ?

From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 18:05:40 CST


Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> If he wants to hide binaries from the user agent, then he should take
> care that the administration of the relevant subhierarchy makes a clear
> distinction between the binary groups and the textual groups. If he
> needs user agents to filter, he'd better talk to his ISP and have him
> include Content-Type in the overview.

For good or ill, essentially no one uses correct MIME tagging in binary
Usenet groups. Everything is either uuencode or yEnc.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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