Re: Tolerance - MIME attachments in ASCII are OK?

>> Additionally not everyone can read attachments. I can't. I know
people
>> on here who won't. I also do not read my email via netscape or any
other
>> browser. If you want to share the info with people on here, ought to
>> send it in ASCII text.
>
>The attachment was in ASCII text it said so in the header above. There
is a 
>BIG difference between ASCII attachments and BINARIES. BINARIES are
banned 
>from this list - posting ASCII
>is OK? 

Hmmmm. I guess I get an education here; it looked to me like an encoded
binary
attachment. Nevertheless, I couldn't decode/read it.

>though its good manners to put (long) in the subject header if it is 
>several Kb. Its just some mailers add a supplementary ASCII document as
a 
>MIME attachment, others even send the mail message in MIME format.
Often its 
>just too much hassle to embedd the document in the message (in MS its
easy to 
>drag and drop a file into a message but you get it as a MIME
attachment). 
>Often people do this without thinking about it.

Don't know nuthin' 'bout MS; don't do PCs right now. Strictly a
mainframe
type of guy.

>I think the vast majority of modern mailers support MIME and its it
such 
>common usage as to be part of the email furniture now. Those without it
(like 
>on VMS mail :-) 

Guilty!

>have my condolences but please don't prevent those of us with 
>modern mail systems from using it if the necessity arrives. It you
don't want 
>to read it on some strange MIMEophobic or security principle thats
fine. If 
>you can't, there are solutions for the MIME challenged, you can get
MIME 
>unpackers even for VMS on the web (munpack).

This something a simple user can get and install, or does he need system
privileges to do so? If the latter I have no option since this is
through
my work acct.

Mk
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