From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DLLS
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 07:36:00 -0800
Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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Mark T Logan wrote:
> 
> Two lines of actual message were written, and the rest is trash.  Maybe
> I'm just
> clueless, but do many people actually read these messages with "MIME
> aware
> tools"???  If not, this is what I call a huge waste of bandwidth, (almost
> as bad as
> most of my messages ;-)  ), and also a pretty strong argument for
> moderation.

I hate to disappoint you, but most of us use MIME aware tools (ever hear
of Netscape?  Eudora?  Agent?).  It's the standard method for attaching
stuff to news and email posts.  For me, Netscape puts the attachment in
a neat little box at the bottom with a link I can click on to download
it.  ;)

Of course, it's still impolite to post large attachments to a non-binary
newsgroup, particularly one that gets mirrored to a mailing list.  The
one that was posted is on the borderline.

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