There was a lot of hilarity at today's Cypherpunks meeting, about the MIME/complexity thread. Others are reporting similar experiences, percolating into newsgroups:
From: sag@hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Steve Goldfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest Subject: "Process Mime Article y/n?" Message-ID: <3ainnf$itf@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 18 Nov 94 17:19:42 GMT Sender: usenet Distribution: world Organization: University of California, Berkeley Approved: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
A day or so ago while trying to read this newsgroup, I got the prompt, "Process Mime Article? y/n?" I said "y" and was immediately sorry. Message after message came up and no character seemed to permit escape from that loop. Seems to me there should be a warning about such things. I had to disconnect and relogin to my account and then delete the message without reading it. I notice today that if I'd said "n," I'd have got the same old very long message. Anyway, I'd urge the moderator of the newsgroup to stick in a warning or tell the unwary reader how to excape from the Mime loop. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Steve Goldfield :<{ {>: sag@coe.berkeley.edu University of California at Berkeley Richmond Field Station
--