> oops, forgot one!
Five lines of wrapper around that content:
> ------ =_NextPart_000_01BC7C3A.E163E920
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> oops, forgot one!
>
Fourteen lines of quoted reply message:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anton Sherwood [SMTP:dasher@netcom.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 1997 9:14 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: meiosis is not as easy as it looks
>
> Thom Quinn listed viable combinations of sex chromosomes:
> XO XY XYY XYYY
> XX XXY XXYY
> XXX XXXYY
>
> Strange that the list includes XXX and XXXYY but not XXXY.
>
> Anton Sherwood *\\* +1 415 267 0685 *\\* DASher@netcom.com
And a big attachment, forty+ lines, which I will largely elide:
> ------ =_NextPart_000_01BC7C3A.E163E920
> Content-Type: application/ms-tnef
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> eJ8+IicDAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAEIgAcAGAAAAElQTS5NaWNy
> [...]
> AAAAAAMADTT9NwAABBY=
>
> ------ =_NextPart_000_01BC7C3A.E163E920--
More and more, people are using mailers which produce this kind of
output. I see replied-to messages quoted in full almost more often than
not on some mailing lists. Often the main content of the replied-to
message is itself a set of earlier messages in an exchange. It is not
unusual to have messages of hundreds of lines with only a few percent
original content.
The large MIME attachments are annoying as well. I suppose if I had a
MIME compliant reader these would just clutter a directory somewhere. This
particular one, application/ms-tnef, is one I see a lot. What is it?
I assume it is added by a Microsoft mail client. Is it a rich-text
formatted version of the message?
Hal