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
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