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/>