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

>> sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer) writes:
>
>>> Gnus declares the posting as multipart/mixed but according to rfc 2046
>>> multipart/parallel seems to be the correct alternative. WDYT?
>
> I you have a posting with different charcter encodings which can't
> be unified you get multipart/mixed.

I don't think multipart/parallel is the correct type for this
circumstance.  RFC 2046 says:

,----
|    In particular, in a parallel entity, the order of body parts is
|    not significant.
| 
|    A common presentation of this type is to display all of the parts
|    simultaneously on hardware and software that are capable of doing
|    so.
`----

Clearly, the order of the parts _is_ significant in this case.  We
wouldn't want all of the parts to be popped up in different windows as
the RFC suggests is a common way of representing
multipart/alternative.