Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 08:25:42 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Life, Such As It Is
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 5/8/2005 11:33:05 PM >>>
>This (MIME droppings in Mike's email) happened once before.  So
>I started automatically de-miming all messages sent to this list.
>But that ran into problems when people *wanted* to use equal signs
>in messages.  And Mike got his email program fixed.  So I stopped
>doing it.
>
>http://www.expita.com/nomime.html explains why MIME in email is a bad
>thing, and also describes how to turn it off in various mail
programs.
>
>Actually, any program which doesn't *default* to off, and *warn* you
>when you try to turn it on ("are you SURE you really want to do
this?")
>was written by idiots, and should be replaced.

Must be a lot of that going around since there's a page devoted to "how
to turn it off in various mail programs."

mjw