From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 16:49:47 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: I Like ASCII, not MIME and Other Fancy Crap
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L. McCarthy wrote:

> Speaking of which, can anyone explain why my usually-MIME-compliant mail
> reader (ELM 2.4 PL22) pukes on the fancy parts of all these draft
> announcements ?  Personally, I find MIMEd messages very annoying because I'm
> forced to hit RETURN (not just "any key") several extra times for each
> message.  {Luckily, it's clear that I'd never have time to read any of these,
> so they get tossed in the bit bucket almost immediately.}

Hear, hear! An increasing fraction of my e-mail is non-ASCII, and has
this MIME (or whatever) stuff in it. (The Smalltalk list I'm on is
about 50% like this.)

I suppose some messages make use of it, as Eric Blossom's just did (in
allowing retrieval of more stuff, somehow), but a lot of the
"offending" messages just seem to be non-ASCII for the hell of it.

Like Lewis, I find myself to easily delete the message and move on.
(I'm debating just deleting the messsages, which are marked "M" for
Mime, before even starting to read them.)

Personally, I like simple ASCII. No fancy fonts, no embedded graphics,
no Quicktime movies I have to watch, etc.

Just my views.

--Tim May


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