On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Huge wrote:

On 2009-04-04, Tom Anderson wrote:
This message is in MIME format.

Please don't. Usenet is a plain-text medium.

Hands up everyone who had trouble reading that post.

Nobody? Right.

I have no idea why my mailer formatted that message as MIME, given that it
was plain text. But given that it thus contained a single plain text part,
it was effectively plain text, and if you did have trouble, you should
upgrade to a newsreader written some time in the last decade.

tom

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