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Re: mime news

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From: Oliver Broadway
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 00:00
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 In article <90981667_000029_OASIS_NEWS@bengio.demon.co.uk>
  philip@bengio.demon.co.uk (Trooper) wrote:-

>I know this is probley nit picking but are more and more news items arriving as
>mime posts,I cant really see the reason for these but there must be one.
>Apart from taking a bit longer to read as it takes time to decode them I cant
>see any real need for them.
>This is not a moan ,But it would be nicer when reading a long thread to just use
>the arrow keys instead of having to decode each reply.

You can do this by turning off "Show Mime" in the News Options dialog.
Unfortunately, however, there doesn't seem to be any way of making this the
default, so you have to go to News Options and uncheck the box every time
you load Oasis (and the same for Mail Options, if you're getting lots of
mail in MIME format).

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Ollie
  
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From: ollie@improv.demon.co.uk (Oliver Broadway)
Subject: Re: mime news
Date: 1997/02/08
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