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From: Matt H <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Usenet Gateway and Mailing List Archive Woes.
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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:27:34 +0000
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:05:21 +0100
"Boyd Roberts" <boyd@strakt.com> wrote:

> rob pike wrote:
> > This is acme/mail's fault. it's got a terrible heuristic for deciding
> > the type of the attachment.
> 
> The real problem is the MINEfield (sic) that is the 4 MIME RFCs.
> 

watch out for multipart/related too, it's for HTML
formatted mail but many MUA's don't seem to know about it (as I've
recently find out after making my html email generator produce it. OE5 was
fine with it, OE5.5+ ignores it) 

M