Re: yEnc-encoded articles in newsgroups

Hi Wolfgang,

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.

Sounds great with a one-line list of newsgroups, separated with a space, thanks.
FYI, it will be useful with the perl-nocem program shipped with the next release of INN (2.7.2) as I have added the possibility to only process a subset of Message-IDs within a notice, according to specific rules by the news admin (sort of a local function called like in cleanfeed.local).  Having the whole list of newsgroups will permit for instance to process Message-IDs of articles posted to a newsgroup actually carried by the server.  Or more complex cases like processing NoCeM notices for only a subset of newsgroups (if someone does not want to cancel anything in some newsgroups) or not taking into account notices from "john" or of a given type, except for a subset of newsgroups.

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.

Is it an issue to open upstream to Cleanfeed, to fix the is_binary() function?
Or do you have a lower max_base64_lines default value, which makes it match PGP signatures?
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Julien ÉLIE
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