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On 24 Aug 2003, Jesper Harder <- harder@myrealbox.com wrote:

> sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer) writes:

>> from a discussion in another newsgroup about the fact that Gnus under
>> special circumstances does create multipart postings we thought about
>> the correct value for the mime header.

>> Gnus declares the posting as multipart/mixed but according to rfc 2046
>> multipart/parallel seems to be the correct alternative. WDYT?

> Hard to say without knowing which special circumstances you're
> thinking about.

Sorry the reason was so obvious to me I didn't mention it: I you have a
posting with different charcter encodings which can't be unified you get
multipart/mixed.

   KP

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