Re: Improper handling of some mime types

[david.goldberg6@verizon.net (David S. Goldberg)]

>>>>> On 14 Feb 2002 08:57:09 -0800, Kurt Swanson
>>>>> <direct@reply.not.desired> said: 

> To me this is a *serious* error.  There are two mime parts in
> message-id: tQCa8.5559$qt6.469306@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net in
> the alt.binaries.pictures.orchid newsgroup.  

I can't see any binary groups from where I am now, but I'll speculate
since I've seen this type of structure enough times that I bet it's
what's actually in that article.  What you're seeing is a structure
like this

1: Multipart/alternative
        a) text/plain
        b) multipart/related
           i) text/html
           ii) image/somethingorother

thus the image is actually associated with part 1b, not another part
separate from the multipart/alternative.  In general images don't
relate to text/plain; the nominal purpose of multipart/alternative is
to allow a message to do something "reasonable" on both rich and poor
displays.  I agree it's annoying since depending on your Emacs
version, gnus can display an image along with text/plain, but I
believe it is correct behavior for the MIME parser.  This is why I add
multipart/alternative to gnus-buttonized-mime-types.
-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net