On 13 Feb 97, Robert Ponterio wrote:

> Given the problems we still have trying to get our subscribers to
> configure their software to handle 8-bit or quoted-printable codes so
> they can read the accented characters in ISO-LATIN-I, I am not looking
> forward to the complaints when they begin receiving HTML, audio, images,
> and (God forbid) video that they can't decode.  Not to mention the
> mailbox full errors generated when someone decides to attache 25 large
> bitmapped images to a post.  Actually, we are already filtering large
> messages in an attempt to catch large attachments, and this is working
> pretty well.

As a user who is restricted to PINE when away from home, I hope that we never
come to that -- plus can you imagine the disk and memory drain on the client
machines.  No, thank you.

Liz

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