175923 - Plain-text news message shows up as requiring QuickTime plugin

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 169991

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

Description

[Dan Tobias]

Every time I try to access news message ID
O1ps9.3286$[e-mail], it comes up as a blank grey
window wtih a broken QuickTime logo in the middle of it, like Mozilla thinks it
requires that plug-in.  But the message seems to be perfectly ordinary plain
text.  I'm using build 2002101808 under Win98.  Here's a source dump of the
message in question:

Path:
news2.news.adelphia.net!router2.news.adelphia.net!router1.news.adelphia.net!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail
From: "rf" <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
References: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: coming soon to a browser near you
Lines: 17
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Message-ID: <O1ps9.3286$[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 03:03:10 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.179.148
X-Complaints-To: [e-mail]
X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1035082990 144.132.179.148 (Sun, 20 Oct 2002
13:03:10 EST)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:03:10 EST
Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au)
Xref: router2.news.adelphia.net comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:31882


"andkonDOTcom" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
news:[e-mail]...
> Come January 1, 2003, everyone's favorite HTML Tutorial will reopen.

<snip glowing remarks about above alleged tutorial.>

> Unless you have the usual urge to put me down, there is not much
> reason to respond as this is a "feel good" posting. View this posting
> as a living historical landmark, haha.

Reads more like spam to me.

Cheers
Richard.

Comment 1

[Copperfield]

I keep getting this too... and it's quite annoying!
Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021018

I read somewhere that it only happens with messages that come from servers with
a .au domain, but I can't recount where at the moment.

Comment 2

[WD]

Try a more recent build

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169991 ***

Comment 3

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate