Tek 4014/5 emulation

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Fri Jun 16 12:09:18 2000

On June 16, William Donzelli wrote:
> I'm curious - what will some of us folks do when HTML in email is used by
> 99 percent of the population? Is anyone writing mailers for the old
> systems that can handle the HTML properly? Let's face it, HTML in email
> is here and its growing. I would venture to say it is a natural
> evolution, and all of the complaining we as a group do will have no
> effect on the rest of the world. The rest of the world can use the excuse
> "get a modern computer" - and for the most part they are right.

  I still insist that it has nothing to do with "old" or "new"
computers...or even "old" or "new" mailers!

  "Get a modern computer" doesn't do the trick...I can spin up X on a
twenty-year-old MicroVAX-II and run state-of-the-art GUI-fied email
software (kmail, vm under xemacs, whatever you want!) that will deal
with HTML email.

  It really does seem to me that it's very much a Windoze/non-Windoze
thing. Next time someone emails you HTML crap, look at the headers.
It *all* comes from Windoze boxes. On the other hand, everyone I
associate with around here (home and work) uses Unix boxes of one
form or another...for the most part, they're all running perfectly
*NEW* modern hardware, running current, state-of-the-art
software...and I get NO HTML crap from any of them.

  Non-HTML email is not exclusive to those of us who are into classic
computing. Non-HTML email isn't a "dying, quaint old way of doing
things" like some of the sold-on-Microsoft people seem to think.

           -Dave McGuire
Received on Fri Jun 16 2000 - 12:09:18 BST