At 6:32 PM 11/18/94, 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.}

I would suspect because your copy of metamail, which elm's MIME handling requires, isn't configured correctly. It works fine for me in elm, and in Eudora. If you don't like the way elm calls out to metamail, you can set the NOMETAMAIL environmental variable (under csh, "setenv NOMETAMAIL"), and elm will show the messages without calling metamail (which means you lose MIME capabilities, but if that's what you want....) The optimal answer is a better MIME reader, but...... Bob -- Bob Snyder N2KGO MIME, PGP, RIPEM mail accepted snyderra@post.drexel.edu PGP & RIPEM keys on key servers When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.