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Re: I Like ASCII, not MIME and Other Fancy Crap

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NODE 78f59733Re: I Like ASCII, not MIME and Other Fancy Crap
>>One last note: I read my mail on-line, interspersed with reading
>>NetNews. Although I have Eudora, and of course use it, I don't use it
>>for routine work (for one thing, it may take 20 minutes to download my
>>mail, so I tend to use it when I'm heading out to do something else,
>>or to go to sleep, etc.). So all the "solutions" that involve using
>>Eudora are not my cup of tea. That's just the way it is.
>
>Twenty minutes for your mail? How fast a modem do you use?

That, or how much email do you get? I can d/l the email I found this morning
(17 messages, mostly this list) in under 2 minutes.

>
>Let's take that poll of what people use. I am curious.

PC Eudora, Trumpet, the WS_* 'suite', Mosaic. Ran Chameleon for a while, but
got tired of GPFs, hiccups, etc - finally concluded that it ate dirt, and
scrammed it.

Dave Merriman
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NODE 1f431fc3Re: I Like ASCII, not MIME and Other Fancy Crap
>Let's take that poll of what people use. I am curious.

   PC Eudora, Trumpet, the WS_* 'suite', Mosaic. [...]

OK, OK.  Let's NOT take that poll over the mailing list!

Kan't dictum certainly applies here; think about what would happen if
everyone else did the same.  Hint: there are over 600 addresses on the
mailing list.

Eric