From: Randal Whittle (rwhittle_at_usa.net)
Date: Thu Jun 04 1998 - 14:59:41 EDT
At 05:44 PM 6/3/98 , Paul Khoury wrote:
>
>>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outdated.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
>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
No, if everyone was using HTML mail, I could have embedded close-up
pictures of the door hinges and tapered edges I was describing instead of
trying draw them in ASCII.
Dave's right. The more appropriate analogy would be those who were so
attached to their radios that they wouldn't buy a TV. Once you see how
useful HTML mail can be, you'll wish everyone else had it too.
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Randal J. Whittle whittle_at_usc.edu (213) 740-7775
Director, Electronic Commerce Program
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
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