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- From: bjoerns@stud.cs.uit.no (Bjoern Stabell)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Subject: Re: MIME in NEWS?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.195726.9362@news.uit.no>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:57:26 GMT
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- Sender: news@news.uit.no (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
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- Mike Switkes (mswitkes@ralph.cs.haverford.edu) wrote:
- ] My only question is what will happen to the (already high) volume of news
- ] when people start including sound and graphics in their posts? Aargh,
- ] I already see thumbnail portraits of people in their .sig :-)
-
- Well, sound and graphics are on News today, uuencoded. And, I would guess
- that the 'normal' rule of thumb that signatures shouldn't be over 4 lines
- (<320 bytes) still applies, so graphics/sound in signatures will be frowned
- upon.
-
- The main advantage I see is that News will be character set independant -
- which is more or less a MUST for everybody except americans. :)
-
-
- Anybody thought about modifying the GNUS to Lucid Emacs to do MIME? It
- shouldn't be too difficult by using Lucid Emacs 'faces'.
-
-
- Kind regards,
- --
- Bjxrn Stabell
- University of Tromsx
- (+47) 83 44 053 / 83 75 164
- bjoerns@staff.cs.uit.n
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