On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:46:41 +0000, Ron Gibson wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:31:32 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:
>
>>> Use Thunderbird or Seamonkey for that. I don't use pan as a pic
>>> viewer.
>
>> I need the filters to strip out the p0rn/spam crap from the animal
>> pics.
>
>>> Does it not work perfectly for "news only" reading or not?
>
>> I use slrn for text reading. Much faster. :-D
>
> Which is exactly why I'd use pan for text and Thunderbird for anything
> HTML or graphics.
>
> BTW, I don't believe this is a new issue. I remember some very long
> threads sometime back about pan failing on binaries.
>
> So you might not have found a new problem - Instead you rediscovered an
> old one.
>
> BTW, Thunderbird viewed that animal NG perfectly. But I
> wondering...animal pics ??? Please tell me you aren't carrying a pic of
> a sheep in your wallet :-)



Sorry to barge in, but I tried Thunderbird just now and had a worse
problem with the images. I looked around in the menu for some kind of a
default block on pictures, but didn't see anything obvious. All the
images I tried appear as hieroglyphics only.

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