Re: multiple part postings

From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 22:04:49 CDT


Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:

> I believe it's addressed partially by discussion of MIME
> message/partial, which is the preferred method for handling such things.
> It's also in accordance with the directive to base our documents on RFC
> 2822 plus MIME. However, there are parts of the draft which conflict
> with that.

There was a fairly long discussion in news.software.nntp a while back
about multipart postings. It's hideously unlikely that anyone will
actually use multipart/partial as the primary method of indicating
multipart postings on Usenet, at least without *also* relying on the
subject hacks, because Content-Type isn't and probably never will be in
overview information.

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



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