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

[Greg Evans <raisplin@rcn.com>]

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on 3/26/99 1:24 PM, Barry Treahy was rumored to have said...

>******    message to minivend-users from 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?

Personally I avoid at all costs HTML based email, I can get email on my 
Mac, PC, un*x box, etc., and I prefer to get non-HTML email as well.

>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.  

You would bet _WRONG_, compatibility with all browsers (at least the 
browsers that I know of) was/is and will for the forseeable future be my 
goal.  Sometimes I don't feel like waiting for all the graphics to 
download into Netscape or IE, so I use lynx.

>We're probably more concerned about the headaches 
>associated
>with IE 5!

I bear little love for M$, IE5 is the least of my concerns, most of my 
page probably won't break.

Greg
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