1994-12-17 - Re: The Thread That Wouldn’t Die (Was: Re: McCoy is Right!)

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From: “L. McCarthy” <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <199412170127.UAA21542@bb.hks.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-12-17 01:22:30 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 16 Dec 94 17:22:30 PST

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From: "L. McCarthy" <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 94 17:22:30 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The Thread That Wouldn't Die (Was: Re: McCoy is Right!)
Message-ID: <199412170127.UAA21542@bb.hks.net>
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Lucky Green writes: 
> L. McCarthy wrote:
> [regarding MIME]

Note that James Donald actually wrote this quoted text, not I:

> >Well it certainly is not essential for todays messages.
> >
> >Drop into alt.binaries.pictures.*
> >
> >When the news people wish to transmit pictures of naked girls, etc,
> >they do not use MIME
> >
> >Now maybe they should use MIME, and maybe they will use MIME in
> >the future, but today, MIME is still bleeding edge.

Lucky Green writes:
> I have dropped into alt.binaries.*. Thanks to my newsreader (freeware), the
> pictures there are a _mouseclick_ away from my harddrive. Even multi-part
> posts take ONE mouseclick.

Can you recommend an ftp site for this ?  I'll try to get my sysadmins to
install it here. (Assuming it's a Unix app.) What is it called ?

- - -L. Futplex McCarthy, 
who likes MIME but is unhappy that his mailer does not properly support it

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