Re: MIME

malcolm wrote: > > "Dirk Moolman" <DirkM@mxgroup.co.za> wrote in message news:<cdgkqn$fe3$1@news.xmission.com>... > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C46D98.AF4030B7 > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > I keep getting reminded that I am using mime, but people on the mailing = > > list. > > > > =20 > > > > I do not have control over the mail I send out from my exchange server. = > > Due to the spam filter being used, the mail gets converted to MIME after = > > I hit the "send" button - even if I specify it to be text ...... :-( > > > > =20 > > > > So I do apologise, but my mail won't send text. > > > (much more snipped) > > Dirk, I appreciate the problem. I recently replied to a message from > a non-standard mail interface and found that I had accidentally sent > MIME and also that I had cross-posted to a number of lists. And the > abuse I received addressed to me personally and not to the list(s) had > to be seen to be believed. I know that mime takes a lot more > bandwidth but the action of telling peoiple about it also uses a lot > of bandwidth. I often think that many people on the internet are too > concerned with a sense of their own importance and they don't think > about those of us who don't spend all day waiting for a message to > make fun of or ridicule. > And often these same people take on a different persona on the > internet. Yor never really know who you are talking to. > > regards > > Malcolm Malcolm, one of the problems of bandwith wasting is, that - much like my nntp providers does it now - providers worldwide tend to keep the ever increasing messages (in bytes, not in content) shorter and shorter periodes in time This is just one, but heavyweighting disadvantage. There are many, many more. dic_k on the usenet since Q1/1987 -- Richard Kofler SOLID STATE EDV Dienstleistungen GmbH Vienna/Austria/Europe