In article <407d86f4@news.povray.org> , Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:

> You're definitely not saying "look at the text, try to guess whether the
> sender is lying about what's really there, try to reverse engineer the
> content encoding, then try to guess based on the content what kind of
> file it actually is, and if it comes up as a bitmap, decompress the
> bitmap and draw individual pixels on the screen in the right colors."
> That's definitely not "text". :-)

No, that is exactly what I am saying.  It is the way Usenet messages need to
be decoded!  Sad, but true.

    Thorsten

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