GEN: gif or MIME format. What gives?

["David Pearson" <DHPearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apparently, some RT's receive gif files with no problem.  Others don't.  

When I receive my own gif attached posts from the RT listserver I have no 
problem. An icon appears in the post of the gif file. I simply double click 
the icon and  my gif viewer opens the file.  

I don't know how wide spread this problem is.  The obvious solution is to send 
both a gif file and an encoded MIME txt file of the gif.  What a hasle.

Is there another option?  

By the way, I have heard that the email program in Netscape Communicator 4.03 
and the soon to be released final version of Internet Explorer 4.0 can open 
the gif files. when the post is read.  No work around decoding to be done.  

Is that true?  If so, then for those of you out there that can upgrade to the 
latest versions, please do.  www.browsers.com (part of www.cnet.com) is a 
great place to get unbiased infomation and evaluations.  Plus you can download 
the programs from that site.


Talk with you later,

David "a gif is worth a thousand words" Pearson


PS.  I didn't receive my (3 of 6) post on trendlines from the RT listserver.  
I sent it three times.  Did anybody else get it?  What gives?  Some of my 
posts are received are some are not.