What's with the raw HTML?

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Mar 15 09:45:54 1998

<Text. If the e-mail that you wish to respond to's in plain text, that's
<what it'll send. The problem is that if M$ supports it, the WHOLE WORLD
<suddenly has to all have HTML-ized e-mail readers. It's nice if you hav
<it, but a pain in the A** if you don't.

There is the little matter of some several million (or more) unix(linux,
and related cuzins) systems out there where HTML is far from a standard.
For me and many of the hybrid users HTML means slow, slower and special
utilities to handle it and for what? What a waste of bandwidth.

Allison
Received on Sun Mar 15 1998 - 09:45:54 GMT