Hi Martin (Martin R. Green), in <34a90567.22125349@mail.ionsys.com> on Dec 29 you wrote:

> Bad, bad, BAD assumption.  I would be willing to bet that the majority
> of PICLIST members do NOT use a browser for email.

I use a 1992 port of ELM on a niche computer, that basically displays
ASCII.  For MIME encapsulated messages it has to call external viewers.
Usually I abort viewing those messages as the external batches are lengthy,
and most of the time those messages carry not much information.