What's with the raw HTML?

From: Greg Troutman <mor_at_crl.com>
Date: Sun Mar 15 14:27:25 1998

Tony Duell wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > <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.
>
> While it's obviously going to be possible to write an HTML mail client for
> linux (or any other unix) -

There already is, it's called Netscape.

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