hmm, 

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, John Wilson wrote:

> From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@uranium.vaxpower.org>
> 
> >  This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,
> >  while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.
> 
> But it IS all plain text.  Misconfigured mailer?

could be.. pine 3.89, ultrix. it occasionally gets confused with quoting 
messages the primary body of which is a mime attachment.. 

yea, black box is really cool. a bit on the expensive side, but they will 
make just about any cable one can imagine. 

isildur