I too vote against embedded HTML in email. Give me the content, the fancy
formatting is superfluous.
Kevin
At 12:03 PM 00/02/03 -0500, Merle K. Peirce wrote:
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>I really hate that HTML mail crap, too, and usually just delete it. I
>have little enough time, anyway, I don't want to waste it it in HTML
>unless I'm writing it.
>
>On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, John Wilson wrote:
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>> >From: allisonp_at_world.std.com
>>
>> >Another pet peeve, posts/replies in html, I don't read them and dump them
>> >sumarily as A) they are often spam, B)the are a pain to handle via said
>> >slow telnet and pine.
>>
>> I have the same attitude, WHY do people think we would even want to see a
>> fancy schmancy version of what they typed as simple ASCII text, especially
>> when many of us read this list on simple ASCII terminals anyway so we can't
>> see any of the colors or misaligned columns. It's especially annoying when
>> a message contains the same text twice, once as text and once as HTML, so
>> at least half of the message is useless to *everyone*. I would *love*
it if
>> list servers could be set up to filter this crap out, or at the very least
>> run the HTML text through Lynx or something and translate it back to usable
>> 80-column ASCII.
>>
>> FWIW I'm not crazy about the new header format, when I replied to this msg
>> with "R" (I'm using Berkeley Mail) it would have gone to Allison only, and
>> when I changed to "r", the mailing list was only there as a Cc:, if I had
>> edited out the other recipients there would have been *no* primary
recipient,
>> only a Cc:. And that's certainly not what we want!
>>
>> This problem comes up on every mailing list, maybe it would make sense to
>> define an X-Foo: header that gives the mailing list address and hack the
>> popular mailers to have a "reply to mailing list" command? Or has this
>> already been done and I'm just oblivious as usual? Of course this wouldn't
>> help Windows users running canned mailers with no source code available,
>> but what can I say, shame on you!!! :-)
>>
>> John Wilson
>> D Bit
>>
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>M. K. Peirce
>Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
>215 Shady Lea Road,
>North Kingstown, RI 02852
>
>"Casta est qui nemo rogavit."
>
> - Ovid
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Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
mcquiggi_at_sfu.ca
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