On Wed, 13 May 2009 09:42:13 +0100, Alan of VianAlky wrote
(in article ):

Now I expect I'm in the minority but could some one point me in a direction
to open and view these files?

You're probably better off just getting Simon Fraser's MT-Newswatcher which
should be able to handle multi-part binaries without human intervention.
Same with yEnc posts, assuming you're running OS X.

It's free and you can download it from:

http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/