(fwd) "Process Mime Article y/n?"

[Timothy C. May]

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 at hera.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Steve Goldfield)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
> Subject: "Process Mime Article y/n?"
> Message-ID: <3ainnf$itf at agate.berkeley.edu>
> Date: 18 Nov 94 17:19:42 GMT
> Sender: usenet
> Distribution: world
> Organization: University of California, Berkeley
> Approved: info-mac at 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.
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> Steve Goldfield           :<{  {>:         sag at coe.berkeley.edu
> University of California at Berkeley     Richmond Field Station
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