Re: yEnc-encoded articles in newsgroups

Thus spake Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid>
 

Incidentally, in your NoCeM notices, wouldn't it be useful to list all
the newsgroups they are sent to?  Only the first one is currently
written whereas they could for instance be written on subsequent lines
starting with whitespace, or on the same line.  (I agree it would lead
to more lengthy messages or lines.)

I'm using News::Article::NoCeM from CPAN to generate NoCeM messages and
it puts each additional newsgroup on a separate line starting with a TAB
and ending with CRLF, which led to people (wrongly) complaining about the
structure of my messages. Currently, I'm testing a patch for
News::Article::NoCeM that will put all newsgroups on the same line as the
M-ID with a TAB between the M-ID and the first article and a blank
between the individual group names. 

I think some newsgroups should be marked as allowing binaries or HTML.
<CAOLa=ZSo7ngBUxkfR+EEojhr4a-mM+3=f-P1H36hnhJukEqGVA@mail.gmail.com>
in linux.kernel.git was caught in the Bot-misplaced_binary filter but
looks like a valid article.

My filter makes use of the is_binary () function in Cleanfeed, which in
turn relies on some configuration variables. The problem in the case of
the linux.kernel.git messages is that some of them have a Content-Type
of multipart/mixed with the PGP signature included as a Base64 encoded
attachment.  

As for <XMJON.158253$t8cc.153345@fx06.iad> in alt.binaries.clip-art,
which was only posted to that newsgroup, maybe it should be considered
valid as posted in a newsgroup with a "binaries" component.

Groups with "binaries" in the group name should already be excluded from
the binary filter, will double-check this.

Thanks for your feedback. It is much appreciated.

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