From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 04 1998 - 03:34:36 EDT
Randal wrote:
>> Thanks for letting me know what happened, but...hey, some of you didn't
>> have to be so *nasty* about it! Bullocks to those of you!
Steve Parker wrote:
> Sometimes if you don't bitch about something it doesn't change.
Anyone who's been on this list for a while knows that Randal is well aware of
the ASCII/HTML thing. Your phraseology was more appropriate applied to a
systematic abuser.
> PINE rules. I can get my email from anywhere on the net,
If you're running Pine on your PC, then the 'anywhere on the net' behavior is
really a property of IMAP4, not of PINE, and there are plenty of other mailers
which support IMAP.
>even get it from the lowliest pieces of junk that can barely manage to run
>a modem let alone a TCPIP stack.
Many of us were reading email this way years ago, using (e.g.) Unix mail from a
shell account. In many ways Pine is not a big step forward from the antiquarian
'mail' - I personally find it a step backwards from its predecessor Elm.
Hopefully soon everyone online will enter the 90's and start using mailers that
can properly handle attachments and HTML. Meanwhile, I entirely agree that
posts to lists such as this should be done in generic ASCII. *However*, this
doesn't mean we should heap abuse on people who - for better or worse - have
already moved to more modern protocols.
BTW - Randal, I think you meant 'Bollocks'.
David A. Ross
ross_at_math.hawaii.edu
www.math.hawaii.edu/~ross
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