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Re: Broken mailers which mess up threading
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:27:48 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> [...]
> 3. Maybe raw.cgi is not a good approach. I liked your old clickable URL for
> viewing raw messages that didn't go through the cgi. [...]
Actually, there never was any other way to view raw messages via HTTP than by
clicking the "View Raw Message" link, which goes to the raw.cgi script.
> Now, since all DAT files
> are cgi's as posted here, what I get when I click on this is the "do you want
> to save or display" dialog and then a perfectly useless launch of MLCad on the
> mail message. :-)
>
> Either that or I am misremembering and you used raw.cgi all along and I don't
> have my mime types or corresponding actions quite right here...
raw.cgi sends a MIME content-type of 'text/plain', so you should never see
anything funky there. ldraw.cgi sends a MIME content type of 'application/
x-ldraw' so if you see anything strange there when you click, I would guess
that your MIME associations aren't set up the right way at your client.
--Todd
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| (...) Indeed. NT or IE or the combination thereof is broken in this regard, surprise surprise. IE doesn't directly deal with mime types, it foists the job off on NT (per: (URL) you will need to unwrap this to read it) Instead it is left to the OS (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) message (...) 1. Examine the message itself. Notice the headers even in the non raw view... This was a "courtesy copy" mailed to me as well as posted. Ironically enough, by guess who. I disclaim responsibility for this. Now and forevermore. I (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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