How do you finance/afford your computer collection?

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Thu Jun 22 15:02:59 2000

On Jun 22, 12:38, R. D. Davis wrote:

> Why are you sending Luzedoze e-mail to this list? Please either find
> a way to send plain ASCII or delete Luzedoze from your system and
> install something more useful that can send messages properly.

Well, much as I dislike Outlook (depressed or otherwise), it actually is
capable of sending plain text. You just need to make sure it's set to
generate plain text (not HTML, RTF, or multipart/mixed) in some reasonable
character set, for new messages, AND override the use of HTML/RTF/whatnot
when replying. Besides, there are plenty of other Windows mailers besides
Outlook; it's not a reason to go off the deep end.

> However, you need to remember that not everyone here uses that Microsoft
> rubbish, so you shouldn't be sending e-mail that requires the recipient
> to do anything other than read it.

True, in fact the Merrill Lynch survey I saw on CNN a little earlier today
showed that less than three-quarters of people using Windows use Microsoft
email software. Since only about 2/3 of PCs (in the loosest sense) run
Windows, that means only about half use Outlook etc.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Thu Jun 22 2000 - 15:02:59 BST

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