Re: Help me with the PPP dialup!!! (0/4)

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 01/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:57:00 -0500

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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:42:31 +0000, spike1@freenet.co.uk
  <spike1@freenet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Arrogant?
> His posts WERE uninteligable, this ISN'T a binary newsgroups (so no
> attachments) and plain text only is the requirement here...
>
> No-one's going to be able to help him if his posts are scrambled beyond
> legibility, are they?
>
I haven't seen a newsreader that couldn't handle attachments, but his
attachments used yEnc encoding, which seems to be the latest fad in some
binary newsgroups. Slrn can decode it. 

-- 
Absurd Procrustean Egghead Cornstarch Variant Bill Marcum

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