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From: Jaymz <justin@******.NET>
Subject: Re: [Admin] HTML Posting
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 11:44:58 -0500
At 12:42 PM 7/20/97 +0100, you wrote:
#|I hope its being upgraded, and not just mutating on its own :)
#|I suppose that within the year, all mailers will be able to read and write
#|rtf formatted stuff.. :(
#
#ELM is a pure, simple little mailer....
#It CAN read mime, sometimes, when it feels like it.
#I doubt anyone will put RTF treatment into it though, because it only links
#in with text (ASCII ONLY) editors....

Well, if your .mailcap is setup correctly AND you are using an x server,
you already can read rtf files with elm, spawning an RTF viewer, instead of
more or less.
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