Subject: Pine is a MIME news reader?

From: Dimakopoulos Panagiotis <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:46:29 +0200 (EET)

Hi,

	I am trying to read news groups which have 8-bit chars inside
(greek characters). However the news articles arrive in 8-bit encoding
and not in MIME. With a configuration with some tools that I have set
I have managed to send MIME messages to news groups but when I try to
read them with pine then I see the original MIME article unencoded.

	So my question is if pine as a news reader can post and read
MIME UseNet news articles.

	If not, could anybody suggest any MIME news reader?

Thanks. 

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 14:58:19 -0800 (PST)

> MIME UseNet news articles.

Pine, as distributed by UW, does support MIME news reading and
posting.  However, I noticed that you are running a modified version
of Pine, which may have different behavior.  Check with the author of
whatever patches you are using for details.

BTW, the current Pine 3.92 release has a feature that allows you to
post 8-bit text, thus avoiding Quoted-Printable encoding in newsgroups
that don't like MIME.....

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University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

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From: Dimakopoulos Panagiotis <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 19:17:25 +0200 (EET)

> 4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

I have to insist on my original posting even with the new pine 3.92.
When I do news posting either the

            [ ]  enable-8bit-nntp-posting

is set or not there is the strange situation where the news article
arrives on the nntp server with the Subject encoded in MIME (rfc1522)
and the body in 8bit text. Of course I have checked that the data
arrives in this form by vi'ing the file which keeps the article on
the nntp server where the news for out Net is kept.

Could you please tell me if I am missing something?

Thank you,