Re: Multipart/Alternative

Stefan Kapusniak (stefan.kapus@zetnet.co.uk)
Fri, 03 Jan 1997 10:22:37 +0000

In list.yarn, mikus@bga.com (Mikus Grinbergs) wrote:

>I am being FLOODED with a *huge* number of such news articles, and
>for *every* one Yarn pops-up a dialog asking "Process MIME Message?"

For your scorefile:
-100 pattern Header ^Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

Also complain to Netscape about their broken newsreader
generating such malformed posts.

>These articles all have 'Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative' in
>their MIME headers, meaning the content of the several parts is
>interchangeable. Can Yarn be given the option to NOT display the
>pop-up "Process MIME" question on Multipart/Alternative messages?

I would have thought it would be easier and quicker to write a
preprocessor script, in REXX, Perl, or your favourite Unix shell,
that ran against the soup packet and stripped out the extraneous
garbage, if you actually wanted to SEE the posts...

...Hmmm

-- Kapusniak, Stefan m

PS: if we're throwing features around here, I want NoCeM support <g>