This from the sysop:
MIME is a standard for packaging multiple items, often of different types
(text, Postscript, GIF, executable, error report, etc.) into a single mail
message. Mail readers that understand MIME can automatically "burst" a
mail message into its components and can do smart things like, if one
message requires one character set (U.S. English) and another requires
another (German), then it will change appropriately. Or it could
automatically decode and display a GIF. Or lots of other things. The big
advantage of MIME digests, for the people whose mail readers understand
them, is that the mail reader can realize that the "single" mail message
it's getting is actually composed of many sub-messages, and it can display
it that way. In Eudora Pro, for example, a MIME digest opens up as a
folder instead of as a message. I think Pegasus does the same thing. Now,
some programs don't understand MIME ... but to them, the MIME digest format
should look about the same as the old one. Not *exactly* the same, but
very close. If it is a problem, anyone can switch back to non-MIME simply
by sending to this server the command SET LACTNET NOMIME.
Thanks.
Kathleen
Kathleen B. Bruce, BSN, IBCLC co-owner Lactnet,Corgi-L,TLC, Indep. Consultant
LACTNET site: http://www.mcs.com/~auerbach/lactation.html
LACTNET Archives http://library.ummed.edu/lsv/archives/lactnet.html
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