Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Timothy C. May says:
This was one of those "MIME" things I got, that tell me to "Hit any key to go on," "Now press ^H-Alt-Hyper-Abort to return to the main menu."
It wasn't real mime -- the content type was listed as TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
with a base64 content transfer encoding, but the contents were not seven bit ascii. I have no idea what the thing was.
My system marked it as MIME, as the attachment below will show. (To Jim McCoy: My system is in fact capable of handling MIME, but clearly "elm," which I and a lot of other people use, sees messages like this differently from what some others see.) When I quoted the attached junk, it put it in slightly different form than it was originally. Here's what I saw on my screen, cut-and-pasted: M 97 Dec 14 Peter F Cassidy (26) Re: Less Flaming, More Civility [This show that elm marked it as MIME, the "M," even though Perry's system said it was not true MIME.] Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 16:18:21 +0001 (EST) From: Peter F Cassidy <pcassidy@world.std.com> Subject: Re: Less Flaming, More Civility To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@netcom.com> Cc: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@netcom.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com, tcmay@netcom.com . JE$W\)"F27!UU\WP0,Hc)l(:f-U>3b^3%|?S/AloU *tsa00U]q[B}l5pv(3TLMI*W>h>3b^3%|?S/AloU dXs]r\kZZ{>HqMV-4A$pGEg8SI3 Ja,1gZ ,L:x7QI5^l b6?v E]$[V*K^mr:kfpR [some whitespace deleted] Press any key to return to index. [end of what I saw on the screen.] -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. Cypherpunks list: majordomo@toad.com with body message of only: subscribe cypherpunks. FAQ available at ftp.netcom.com in pub/tc/tcmay