Re: HTML in e-mails (was Consulting <Tangent>)

[Barry Treahy <treahy@mmaz.com>]

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I will not argue with you that *nix ownes the net (thank God), but you have little
argument or you'll loose, that Microslouth owns the desktop.

<FLAME>
Regarding HTML content in messages, this is NOT a MS issue since Netscape products
produce this too.  I find it ironic though, that people bitch, whine, and cry
about HTML in e-mail, yet these are typically the same people that are working
with the web.  Sure, I like command line syntax, but lets face it, pine or any
other mailer cannot hold a candle to the functionality of a GUI Netscape
Communicator E-mail, Eudora, or heaven-forbid Outlook client.  This is 1999 and
whether you use Linux, Solaris, SCO, DEC Unix, HPUX, AIX, etc., isn't it time to
start using a mailer that the majority of the rest of the world is using?

If you insist on using an ASCII text only reader, that is your choice but you
should shut-up because that is no different that a lynx person crying about the
fact that he cannot browse or transact commerce sites on the Internet any
longer...  That is why were are on this list right?  Commerce?  I would bet that
there is not a single person here that is constructing a website with concern to
Lynx compatibility.  We're probably more concerned about the headaches associated
with IE 5!
</FLAME>

Barry

Jon Griffin wrote:

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> At 12:57 AM 3/26/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >******    message to minivend-users from "Ben Hess" <benhess@san.rr.com>
>   ******
> >
> >John,
> >
> >That was the default font in Microsoft Outlook.  I guess you need to give
> >Bill Gates a lesson in net etiquette also.
> >
> No doubt about that! I use Linux, NT and 95 so I don't have that big a bias
> but it is amazing to me how MScentric MS is. Redmond believes that EVERYONE
> uses MS products and the .00001% who don't, don't deserve to have computers.
>
> While this attitude of, "you need to write to our specs", may work on the
> Wintel desktop; it certainly doesn't apply to the net. In fact, MS is not
> even close to being the major player much less the standard on the net.
>
> Fact is Unixes rule the net and in general (there are exceptions) they play
> by the rules (i.e. follow the standards). But, Bill thinks he can change
> everything on the server end with marketing. You would think by reading the
> press that NT runs the whole Internet well the facts are to the contrary
> and I really don't see it changing. The reality is you can't put mission
> critical systems on a PC, much less a PC running NT.
>
> Just my thoughts.
> Thanks,
> Jon Griffin
> jong@e88.org
>
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