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In article <1992Apr12.210235.23356@u.washington.edu> 
           Mark Crispin <MRC@Panda.COM> writes:
> THIS IS A MESSAGE IN 'MIME' FORMAT.  Your news reader does not support
> MIME.  Perhaps you should get new software.

Perhaps you should get a clue.

> Unlike NewsGrazer format, MIME is an emerging standard that is widely
> implemented on many different machines.  

Which probably explains why your MIME post is the first I've seen in any of  
the 38 newsgroups that I follow.

> 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.

We don't have MIME readers on *our* Suns or RS6000's yet, so presumably  
you're also kind enough to post 700K messages to those newsgroups too.

> [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.]

And the lesson is:
    There is one person in the pro-MIME crowd who is a much bigger ass that  
all the pro-RTF crowd put together.

MIME does sound interesting, but posting a 700K message simply to start a  
flame war (without even having the decency to wait until csn.advocacy  
exists) is about as obnoxious an action as one could do.

Just curious:  Did you post the same sized message to all the other main  
computer groups?  Will there be a 700K article in the mac newsgroup (when I  
get to that...)?  In Sun?  In the PC or IBM newsgroups?  Amiga maybe?

Or perhaps you just have a bug up your ass about NeXT's?  Maybe (once NS 3.0  
is released) we should all start posting in Renderman files, and tell you  
how shitty your hardware is.  Why must you vent your rage at NeXT?

If MIME is better, it should be able to "emerge as a standard" without  
brainless pranks like this.  To me, MIME sounds interesting.  You, however,  
sound like someone with a personal vendetta against NeXT users (assuming you  
didn't post to all the other computer newgroups, that is).  One wonders why  
you are so insecure about the work you are doing (ie, MIME) that you have to  
resort to being a jackass in front of the entire world.

700K just to inflame an argument.  Geez.  And I thought the guys posting  
icon's in RTF articles were misusing a good thing...

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA