re: Amanda and MIME

Amanda wrote an interesting post.

I think if we only use MIME, the quality of discussion on the list
would skyrocket.  Eric, you should block all non-MIME posts to the
list.  How could we have been so blind?

<bold>I've <bold>come <bold>to <bold>rethink <bold>my <bold>position
<bold>on <bold>MIME.  <bold>It <bold>is <bold>definitely <bold>the
<bold>savior.  <bold>After <bold>all, <bold>this <bold>formatting
<bold>just <bold>has <bold>some <bold>extra <bold>stuff <bold>which
<bold>should <bold>be <bold>to <bold>hard <bold>to <bold>read
<bold>around.  <bold>Heck, <bold>I'm <bold>sure <bold>this <bold>is
<bold>so <bold>legible <bold>to <bold>everybody <bold>I <bold>may
<bold>launch <bold>into <bold>a <bold>mathematical <bold>explanation
<bold>of <bold>various <bold>public <bold>key <bold>cryptography
<bold>protocols.  <bold>Maybe <bold>even <bold>a <bold>few
<bold>dining <bold>cryptographers <bold>diagrams.

I think the MIME backers should do something that makes me want MIME.
Start posting such crucial diagrams and interesting formatted
documents, so that I feel like I'm losing something by not going to
MIME immediately.

I haven't really seen how MIME will enrich the discussion (and I use
that term loosely) here.  Crap like including a gif/jpeg of myself
with each post isn't exactly compelling.

anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com says:
> I think if we only use MIME, the quality of discussion on the list
> would skyrocket.  Eric, you should block all non-MIME posts to the
> list.  How could we have been so blind?

The anonymous poster should feel happy he's anonymous, as his posting
is embarassingly stupid. Perhaps he'd like to make fun of ASCII next
by posting his next message as sequences of octal digits.

Perry