From: Joel Hardy <NO DOT SPAM DOT deeng AT inficad DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Pentium II 266 Computer Raffle - Dream Machine - Benefits Childrens Hospital
Date: 03 Sep 1997 16:03:52 -0700
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ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) writes:

> The original posting was off-topic. This followup of yours is off-topic.
> And half the users of Usenet (those not using fancy Netscape-enhanced and
> Micro$oft browsers on a PC or a Mac, meaning anyone using a unix account
> for starters) can't decode the HTML and MIME crud in this article.
> Presumably, although this IS a comp.os.msdos newsgroup, there are still a
> fair portion of people that use unix accounts to read news and can't
> handle this encoded crud. There is at least ONE, namely, me.

Off topic?  You haven't read this one yet :P

There are a few Unix clients that'll do MIME types.  Beta 7 of Communicator
(for Linux at least) is out and doesn't expire until Halloween.  Of course,
it's still a memory hog, so I still use Arena, TkRat, and EMACS/gnus a lot.
And if you're a good GNU citizen, you'd stop complaining and write a GPL'ed
Usenet client that DOES support MIME types (I guess it isn't too far off
topic after all, you could port it to DOS with DJGPP ;).

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