Re: [OT] Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 05:50:33 EST


On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, David Ford wrote:

> C program instructions are in ASCII, data certainly isn't restricted to that.
> If you or your M*A can't or won't deal with anything but plain text, then
> filter it. Plain text is clearly in the minority of emails throughout the
> world and the people on LKML seem in general not to care about MIME and
> frequently use it. Let's end this offtopic thread please.

        Good. Now, could you please get something resembling a MUA or at
least RTFM to figure out how to make Mozilla cut this "card for foobar"
crap? "X-Terminally-Clueless: yes" in headers would convey precisely the
same message and would have a benefit of being shorter.

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