friggin' binaries

[luis@odf.ucsd.edu (Luis Patino)]

> I wish The Shadow Knew how to suppress the 5KB friggin' binary appended 
> to its posts. 
> 
> > ------ =_NextPart_000_01BCF21B.09ACF560
> > Content-Type: application/ms-tnef
		   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Shadow, Phil, List, the "binary" Phil refers to has been happening very 
recently, apparently because of a new trend among web-browser-based 
mailers and the most popular stand-alone mailers to automatically send an 
HTML-ized copy of your mail messages to make it readable by a web browser 
as if it were a web page.In fact, in their out-of-box configurations they _only_ send the HTML copy. Behind this mind-numbing, bandwith-wasting 
trend is none other but the Evil Empire - Micro$oft. Of course, mac-based 
mailers are sheepishly following suit, after Apple's defeat by Bill G. 
Thus, if you run a Window$ based mailer and/or browser like Eudora, 
Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator 4.0 (or higher version) or any
Window$ mailer, go to your "Preferences" or "Options" menu, look there for
"Mail Preferences" and set it to "Text only" - and unset the "HTML" 
option if it's still set! Phil, the qlist, and I will thank you.

I'd like to remind M$ Window$ users that not the whole world runs their
operating system, and that unix still is the backbone (and the muscles
and the heart and the brain and the genitals of the Internet!).

To me unix is the quattro of the operating systems.

Luis
85 4ksq
Assorted sun, pentium workstations, exodus mac X-server, running 
solaris 1.2 version of unix.