Re: multipart/mixed with checkgroups

Harald Alvestrand <[email protected]> writes:
> 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".

No, basically all existing software will process the whole body as a
checkgroups.  I think Julien may have improved how INN now handles this,
but if so, that's probably the only server that might look at the MIME
type.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>