L. McCarthy wrote:
Speaking of which, can anyone explain why my usually-MIME-compliant mail reader (ELM 2.4 PL22) pukes on the fancy parts of all these draft announcements ? Personally, I find MIMEd messages very annoying because I'm forced to hit RETURN (not just "any key") several extra times for each message. {Luckily, it's clear that I'd never have time to read any of these, so they get tossed in the bit bucket almost immediately.}
Hear, hear! An increasing fraction of my e-mail is non-ASCII, and has this MIME (or whatever) stuff in it. (The Smalltalk list I'm on is about 50% like this.) I suppose some messages make use of it, as Eric Blossom's just did (in allowing retrieval of more stuff, somehow), but a lot of the "offending" messages just seem to be non-ASCII for the hell of it. Like Lewis, I find myself to easily delete the message and move on. (I'm debating just deleting the messsages, which are marked "M" for Mime, before even starting to read them.) Personally, I like simple ASCII. No fancy fonts, no embedded graphics, no Quicktime movies I have to watch, etc. Just my views. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... 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/tcmay