# Gateway Messages (was Re: subject line)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gateway-messages-was-re-subject-line/113839>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 5, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gateway-messages-was-re-subject-line/113839 "2007-09-05T14:04:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![bbazzarrakk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@bbazzarrakk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bbazzarrakk)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gateway-messages-was-re-subject-line/113839/1 "2007-09-05T14:04:35Z")

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On Sep 5, 2007, at 2:30 AM, Michael W. Ryder wrote:

> > a note about the above as it might be relevant to any decision made.  
> > I watch over the newsgroup gateway and I can say that it would not  
> > be affected. It uses the headers to do it’s magic, because I feel  
> > that’s more reliable. The gateway existed back when the numbers  
> > were still around and it could do so again, though it has been  
> > rewritten since then.  
> > I cannot speak for the other forums, of course.  
> > James Edward G. II  
> > I notice that some messages are still not being propagated properly  
> > through the gateway. Is this still a function of the message  
> > type? I think I remember something about HTML causing problems.

Correct. I explain the rules at:

> **[Gray Soft / Not Found](http://graysoftinc.com/articles/what_is_the_ruby_talk_gateway)**
>
> Something has gone wrong.

> For example, the first message of this thread was not propagated,  
> just the reply from Matz.

Here’s the relevant header from that message:

Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=“----  
=\_Part\_6558\_27473787.1188773304382”

James Edward G. II