🚀 go-pugleaf

Of course, that is the nature of things and the only constant we can
depend on. Things will forever continue to change. But when I get an email
and the body reads (in pine)

"Unable to view, Press S to save" (paraphrasing)

That's annoying. When reading mail in Eudora and it takes two minutes to
open an email because it has to "format the message for display"... What
kind of crap is that?

Now being annoyed is hardly cause for alarm. But I vented all over the
Advanced-Web (Design) list when people started sending html mail. The
thing is, is that this "argument" is suspiciously similar to "You must
use Browser X in order to view this site" 

And while I agree that it doesn't make sense for people to have say
anything older than 3.0 of the big two browser anymore, I will resist
email with anything but text and/or an attachment (except winmail.dats ;)


> who says?  Things, people, the net, the world... they all change.  Why not
> this?
>
> >> >Some email readers do not recognize the html tags and they appear with
> >> >all their <tag> intermingled with the text making it very difficult to
> >> >read the original message.
> >>
> >> Okay... I guess I knew that...  I guess I was wondering why some don't
> want
> >> to use the capability and also why the "anti" venting on the topic
> appears
> >> to be so virulent.
> >
> >Because html is for http and browsers.
> >


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