Date   : Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:38:00 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...>
Subject: Re: MIME Attacments (Off-Topic) [WAS: Re: Using the BBC

On 3 Feb 2006, Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

> Whether people use mail clients that support MIME or not is
> irrelevant (I use VIEW), if I want a MIME encoded attachment, I
> will ask for it. This is a mailing list, not a binaries list. That
> "winmail.dat" is just useless bloat-crap polluting the bandwidth
> with absolutely no content of relevance to the message it was
> posted with.

No arguments there :-)
Just surprised that non-MIME-compliant software was still in use. 
Anyway, I'll shut up now. 
(Incidentally, I use a mixture of Pine on Linux, and Thunderbird on 
Windows. Been a Pine user since 1994 (eek!) and it's always supported 
MIME IIRC.)