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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 13-Apr-92 Re: Barbershop MIME
Doug DeJulio@zardoz.club (808)

> There are several.  I can read MIME messages on my NeXT, as mail or
> news, without a problem.  Get the very latest version of the Andrew
> Tool Kit, it handles MIME.  Or, grab metamail (via anonymous FTP,
> thumper.bellcore.com:/pub/nsb/mm.tar.Z).  It's a filter that you can
> pipe MIME messages through to display them.  Then anyone using a
> command line newsreader that can pipe a message through a filter can
> read MIME messages.  Maybe it'd make sense to adapt this to a service
> so the NewsGrazer folks aren't left behind for too long?

Yes, patching NewsGrazer so that it used metamail to display MIME
messages should be very easy.  The metamail distribution comes with
patches for over a dozen mail & news readers, which should be useful as
a model for how to patch other things such as NewsGrazer.

The main reason I'm replying, however, is to point out that Doug has
jumped the gun slightly.  The "latest" version of Andrew that he refers
to has NOT yet been publicly released -- an easy mistake for him to
make, since he's at CMU.  I believe the Andrew Consortium is planning to
release the MIME-smart version of Andrew some time this month, but to my
knowledge it has not happened yet.  -- Nathaniel