Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!yale.edu!ox.com!umich!sharkey!aucis!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Microsoft/Adobe/PostScript news Message-ID: <677010841wkn18173@edmund.cs.andrews.edu> Date: 15 Jun 91 18:34:01 GMT References: <1991Jun15.134131.5116@sti.fi> Reply-To: gillham@edmund.cs.andrews.edu.UUCP (Andrew Gillham) Organization: Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan Lines: 44 In article <1991Jun15.134131.5116@sti.fi> ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen) writes: >In article crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes: >> >>Hey, do people think that NeXT attachments are acceptable around here >>(as attachments to USENET comp.sys.next news postings, that is, for >>things like diagrams)? > >The problem with NeXT "attachements" is that they typically are not >attachements but rather full NeXT message bodies. What we'd need is >a more decent multimedia Mail.app (and News reader too) that'd obey >by at least some of the established MHS concepts. Then there would be >no problem sending multimedia *bodyparts* as that would still result >in understandable (if not 100% renderable) messages even to non-NeXT >recipients. > >(It would still serve to give a slight push in getting a NeXT in order >to be able to properly view full 100% of the message :-) > > >Timo (A NeXT user but boycotting Mail.app > for the above mentioned reason) I agree. I don't own a NeXT but find reading this newsgroup very interesting and informative. Yes, it does make me want to buy a NeXT, but poor white trash can only afford a vt100 compatible with rn... Hopefully you all won't decide to lock-out potential new users/buyers of NeXT machines. Of course I could setup a script to uudecode, uncompress, untar, and de-rtf the articles, but with the volume in this group that would be REAL inconvenient. (and I'd proably stop reading it) And a lot of sites without NeXT's that carry comp.sys.next would have to drop it because of the increase (big time) in size. putting the uuencoded extra stuff at the bottom of the text part of the posting would work, but > 400 40k articles would tend be expired REAL quick. Just the opinions of a unfortunate individual without a NeXT... ;-) -Andrew -- ===================================================================== Andrew Gillham ****** Andrews University ****** (gillham@andrews.edu) I would've added a cool .signature, but I already mailed this letter.