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In article <1992Apr12.210235.23356@u.washington.edu> MRC@Panda.COM (Mark  
Crispin) writes:
> THIS IS A MESSAGE IN 'MIME' FORMAT.  Your news reader does not support
> MIME.  Perhaps you should get new software.
> 
I see this discussion has reached the juvenile point.  I'm sorry.  Perhaps you  
should check the group you're posting in, it's comp.sys.next.misc.  It's about  
NeXT and NeXTstep.  The discussion has been revolving around wether it is  
appropriate to use a NeXTstep based news reader, and poster.  Mime is not at  
the present, an issue.  If there were a NeXTstep MIME grazer available, then  
posting in that format would be appropriate.  But, in either NG, or MIME,  
posting a non-relevant, 730k message would be, and is, WRONG.

> Unlike NewsGrazer format, MIME is an emerging standard that is widely
> implemented on many different machines.  Perhaps you losers who only
> have NewsGrazer can't read it.  Sorry.  It's your problem.  I guess
> NeXT is destined to fall behind SUN, DEC, AT&T, and all the other
> vendors who have adopted MIME.
> 
> [In case you haven't figured out yet, this is intended as an object lesson
>  to the "I will post RTF and if you can't read it, tough" crowd.]
> 

Pretty juvenile reasoning.  You are just trying to fan a fire, and you know it.
And if you'd look, you can read NG posts, only without the formatting.  Much  
more easily than that mime stuff you posted.  Score one for NG.

> --Interpart.Boundary.Qdjbh920M2Yt4L5uUD
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> 
> Here are the infamous Telephone Chords, the world's premier (=only) 
> all-Bellcore barbershop quartet, singing about MIME.
> 
> Left to right: 
>                             John Lamb, bass 
>                          David Braun, baritone 
>                          Michael Littman, lead 
>                       Nathaniel Borenstein, tenor 
> 

(730k of waste removed)

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You even have one of those long, self-ego stoking, .signatures that use up so  
much bandwidth

Jim De Arras
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