Re: MIME (again)

["L. McCarthy" <lmccarth@bali.cs.umass.edu>]

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Jim McCoy writes:
> tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) writes:
> [...]
> > This is not a flame, but there sure has been an increase in the
> > frequency of this strange MIME messages lately.
> 
> Probably because that is the direction mail is going.  If you can't do it
> too bad, but don't expect everyone else to wait around for you to catch
> up. Time to move your mail into the early 90s and get a MIME-aware mail
> agent... 

I'm using a version of ELM which claims to be MIME-compliant and usually is,
but all I saw in Peter Cassidy's message was a collection of random-looking
extended-ASCII characters. Usually when something arrives in a locally-
unsupported MIME format (like Amanda's GIF a while back), I just get an
"unrecognized format" error message. I didn't see any error messages at all
this time, just a meaningless jumble of characters (different, incidentally,
from the PGP-cipherptext-like characters Tim quoted).

We have enough dumb flamewars raging on this list right now; let's not
revive an old one.

- -L. Futplex McCarthy; PGP key by finger or server   "The objective is for us 
to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and 
zeroes. Wherever they are, whatever they are, I need them." --FBI Dir. Freeh

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