Re: multipart/mixed with checkgroups

Harald Alvestrand <[email protected]> Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:54:45 +0200

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Russ Allbery wrote:
> Julien ÉLIE <[email protected]> writes:
>
>   
>> Wouldn't it be useful to declare that multipart/mixed SHOULD NOT be
>> used with checkgroups but that an implementation SHOULD process
>> checkgroups control articles as MIME messages and search for
>> an application/news-checkgroups entity?
>>     
>
> Eh.  I'm not sure that human-readable bits in control messages is really
> that important to support... but I guess it would be occasionally
> useful.
>
>   
Is existing deployed software compatible with such a SHOULD?
If not, I'd say "not worth a change at this time".

                 Harald