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In article <1992Apr13.152508.8312@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu>  
ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
|> In article <8187@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> stricher@masig3.ocean.fsu.edu (Char  
Aznabul) writes:
|> >So, the anwser to my question is: there *isn't* a MIME capable news reader  
for
|> >the NeXT?
|> 
|> 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?
1. These filters sound so-so for reading (After all, NeXTMail doesn't require
any piping, nor does NG.)  But what about *making* MIME postings? This
Crispin guy has shown just how primitive the state of the art is in making
MIME postings.

So far I see half-assed reader this and half-assed reader that, but I don't
see even a half-assed creator application. So I don't see how we're being
"left behind". I also note with horror the SIZE of these tools. They may be
half-assed but it's a big ass. :) These things are three times the size of
NG!

And again, RTF-ablity alone does not make NewsGrazer the incredibly powerful
Usenet tool that it is.

Scotty