Arrrgh! Micro$h*t again....

From: Bruce Lane <kyrrin_at_jps.net>
Date: Sun Mar 15 10:35:54 1998

        First, Tim Shoppa noted...

>contains a plaintext version of the message AND the HTML-ified version,
>which is what your plaintext email reader is seeing while Eudora and
>Netscape can pick out the plaintext version.

        Then Kip Crosby added...

>That's it. MIME-enabled clients read the MIME part; MSIE4 reads the HTML
>part; MS-Outlook and Outlook Express I _think_ offer the choice between the
>two. Microsoft no longer considers flat-ASCII mail to be an important
>fraction of the traffic.

        <grrrrrr!>

        The more I hear about Billy-boy, and the more I see of his company's
"products" and arrogant attitudes, the less I like either one! Is there no
amount of bandwidth waste or code-bloat that Micro$quat won't stoop to?!

        I knew there was a reason I'd started to get into Unix boxes. Thanks, guys!


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