From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 04 1998 - 05:39:05 EDT
This is getting off-topic for this list. My point was that enhanced text email
is inevitable, and - while we should keep it off lists like this one until it is
pretty universal - anyone who avoids finding a convenient way of dealing with it
will find online life increasingly annoying as time goes on. Deletion is one OK
way of dealing with it (though it doesn't work on digested lists); reading it
normally seems to me to be a lot less stressful. Meanwhile, I don't think it
serves any purpose to berate people who use it, other than a gentle reminder
that it is currently inappropriate on this list.
Paul, in your case I think your mailer is improperly configured, since it saves
all attachments in an unreadable .ATT form. Better would be a *more* primitive
mailer (like Pine or Elm), which just shows the offending message as source text
with all the embedded HTML codes, or one which is MIME-aware enough to at least
parse the attachment's type, if not display it normally.
David A. Ross
ross_at_math.hawaii.edu
www.math.hawaii.edu/~ross
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Khoury <pkhoury_at_loop.com>
To: ThinkPad List <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>; David Ross <ross_at_math.hawaii.edu>
Date: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: Ooops...HTML mistake!
>
>>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attachments, or our mailer can't view it anyways doesn't mean it's outdated.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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