Re: multipart/mixed with checkgroups

Julien ÉLIE <[email protected]> writes:

> However, as for checkgroups, I do not see the point in seeking
> application/news-checkgroups.  Indeed, multipart is not said to be
> possible and we want to honour the checkgroups body, be it
> application/news-checkgroups or not.  That's why I asked if it could
> be added in USEPRO that multipart/mixed could be sent the same way
> application/news-groupinfo is used for newgroup control articles.
> Otherwise, there is not much to do with that new MIME type...  This
> addition would prepare for a future version of the specification
> because new implementations will try to look for an
> application/news-checkgroups entity.

The point of specifying a MIME type from my perspective was that it let
us create special rules about the body syntax, which one is not really
supposed to do without a corresponding MIME type for the data.  I agree
that news server software, for backward compatibility, probably need to
treat checkgroups the same regardless of the MIME type of the body.
(Although if the MIME type is application/news-checkgroups, you can be
somewhat more confident that the generator isn't doing weird things that
aren't supported by the official syntax.)

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