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Article #47Re: MIME in NEWS?
From: Bjoern Stabell
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:57
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:57
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Mike Switkes (mswitkes@ralph.cs.haverford.edu) wrote:
] My only question is what will happen to the (already high) volume of news
] when people start including sound and graphics in their posts? Aargh,
] I already see thumbnail portraits of people in their .sig :-)
Well, sound and graphics are on News today, uuencoded. And, I would guess
that the 'normal' rule of thumb that signatures shouldn't be over 4 lines
(<320 bytes) still applies, so graphics/sound in signatures will be frowned
upon.
The main advantage I see is that News will be character set independant -
which is more or less a MUST for everybody except americans. :)
Anybody thought about modifying the GNUS to Lucid Emacs to do MIME? It
shouldn't be too difficult by using Lucid Emacs 'faces'.
Kind regards,
--
Bjxrn Stabell
University of Tromsx
(+47) 83 44 053 / 83 75 164
bjoerns@staff.cs.uit.n
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