From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Thu Jun 04 1998 - 00:44:15 EDT
>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.
>
I think that most of us have moved into the 90's. Just because we don't like HTML
attachments, or our mailer can't view it anyways doesn't mean it's outdated. Many
of us who are happy with our current mailers probably won't change, myself included (though
I might use Mozilla or Pine when I get my Linux/SPARC setup eventually). Additionally,
I can't see any benefit of viewing a simple message in HTML anyways. It's like sending
someone a VHS cassette tape when they can just as easily make a 5 minute phone call
(well, this might not apply in some cases, but you get the point of what I'm saying).
>
>BTW - Randal, I think you meant 'Bollocks'.
Whatever that means...clue me in...
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