Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/04/04/15:22:53
In article <19970331 DOT 143551 DOT 7055 DOT 8 DOT fwec AT juno DOT com>, fwec AT juno DOT com (Mark T Logan) writes:
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> [ pages and pages of meaningless characters snipped ]
>
> 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"???
Oh, yes. pine, mh, Netscape and MSIE, PMDF ... noncompliant user agents are
starting to look like rarities. I think Eudora does MIME now too.
> 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.
A waste of bandwidth, not because of MIME but because some bletcherous UAs
insist on sending the same message in several formats.
> Is there some type of program that could be used to filter out things
> like this? (Not
> the whole message, just the trash).
Yup. Most MIME-compliant UAs will wait for you to ask for the attachments.
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