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1994-12-14 - Strange MIME messages

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From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
To: perry@imsi.com
Message Hash: b2f16b304dd27c69c17e3036450c81cfa2a2b61c14386842a867fe46d3f5d9e1
Message ID: <199412142253.OAA15404@netcom11.netcom.com>
Reply To: <9412142205.AA15948@snark.imsi.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-12-14 22:58:44 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 14 Dec 94 14:58:44 PST

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From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 94 14:58:44 PST
To: perry@imsi.com
Subject: Strange MIME messages
In-Reply-To: <9412142205.AA15948@snark.imsi.com>
Message-ID: <199412142253.OAA15404@netcom11.netcom.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Timothy C. May says:
> > 
> > This was one of those "MIME" things I got, that tell me to "Hit any
> > key to go on," "Now press ^H-Alt-Hyper-Abort to return to the main
> > menu."
> 
> It wasn't real mime -- the content type was listed as 
> TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> 
> with a base64 content transfer encoding, but the contents were not
> seven bit ascii. I have no idea what the thing was.

My system marked it as MIME, as the attachment below will show. (To
Jim McCoy: My system is in fact capable of handling MIME, but clearly
"elm," which I and a lot of other people use, sees messages like this
differently from what some others see.)

When I quoted the attached junk, it put it in slightly different form
than it was originally. Here's what I saw on my screen,
cut-and-pasted:

 M 97  Dec 14 Peter F Cassidy    (26)   Re: Less Flaming, More
Civility


[This show that elm marked it as MIME, the "M," even though Perry's
system said it was not true MIME.]

Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 16:18:21 +0001 (EST)
From: Peter F Cassidy <pcassidy@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Less Flaming, More Civility
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@netcom.com>
Cc: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@netcom.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com,

tcmay@netcom.com

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*tsa00U]q[B}l5pv(3TLMI*W>h>3b^3%|?S/AloU
dXs]r\kZZ{>HqMV-4A$pGEg8SI3 Ja,1gZ ,L:x7QI5^l
b6?v
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[some whitespace deleted]



Press any key to return to index. 


[end of what I saw on the screen.]



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