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Strange MIME messages
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 <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Less Flaming, More Civility
To: "Timothy C. May" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Timothy C. May" <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected]
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[some whitespace deleted]
Press any key to return to index.
[end of what I saw on the screen.]
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