| > This is a little mini-moan. I only have an old-fashioned user-unfriendly
> UNIX mail system available to read postings, so I cannot read the fancy non-text
> postings some subscribers make. In some cases the mail system cannot even display an encoded
> version, so I can't even copy it somewhere else to view.
> Is it possible that those making such postings can send a standard text version
> instead of, or even as well as, the deluxe version?
>
> Richard Dobson.
This can be a problem. Try getting your administrator to install a mailer
with MIME ability. He or she should install 'metamail' too, for the
mailer to use in its decoding of those messages. I use elm, and it does
MIME decoding, I'm pretty sure pine can do it.
I hate MIME messages, too, but while some are simply annoying wastes of
bandwidth (Microsoft-generated-anything) others are actually necessary
(7-bit ASCII just can't support European/Asian alphabet systems).
Unfortuantely, not all the world hates a MIME. ;-)
+matt
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