> I think there is a misunderstanding. It now seems that you guys have been > talking about "genuine" MIME messages, with multimedia stuff and binary > exhibits (what "MIME" stands for, in other words). These messages are > clearly not usable unless you have a MIME mail program and some > multimedia applications, and there's nothing an intermediary server like > LISTSERV can do to help non-MIME users with these. I on the other hand > was talking about plain text messages that just happened to be MIME-ified > on the basis that there were non-ASCII characters that might get lost > otherwise, and with the result that only a select few can read the > message. I only see the former in RFC examples, whereas I run across the > latter every day :-) Actually, I wasn't talking about either one. What I see the most of are regular text messages that happen to be sent in MIME format. They are readable with a non-MIME reader, but are much nicer witha MIME reader. By the way, the mail reader I normally use is not MIME-aware.