On Jan 15, 20:37, jpero_at_cgocable.net wrote:
> Subject: Re: Commodore 1541 on ebay for $8500.00
> Date sent: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:35:25 -0800
> Send reply to: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
> From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Commodore 1541 on ebay for $8500.00
>
> > Hey, that's impressive. By default my e-mail program which can handle
this
> > garbage displayed a blank screen. Simply put people, _PLEASE_ use
plain
> > text. I'm quoting the garbage so you can see the garbage you're
sending.
> > 34 lines of crap for 1 line of message, that's MicroSlop for you.
> >
> > Zane
>
> Now I don't waste on this and they get killed on sight unread.
>
> Jason D.
That's exactly what I do, and I suspect that many other readers do the
same. It's not even good HTML -- with all those font and colour
requirements that many systems couldn't honour. Like Zane, I use a mail
reader that can handle MIME, but it often fails on the bad HTML and/or
screwy MIME-types that some messages contain.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sat Jan 16 1999 - 12:23:32 GMT