[23116] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] -L format
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr Hawkeye)
Wed Nov 6 09:27:48 2002
X-Original-From: "Dr Hawkeye" <drhawkeye@netzero.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:26:33 GMT
Reply-To: Dr Hawkeye <drhawkeye@NETZERO.NET>
From: Dr Hawkeye <drhawkeye@NETZERO.NET>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
---------- "Vehlow, Richard" <Richard.Vehlow@OGS.STATE.NY.US> writes:
With all due respect, this is almost 2003 and no longer 1988 (when APO-l was
founded) or 1993 (when APOSOC was founded). How much longer before we can
get with the times? If someone out of 500 subscribers still reads email on a
vintage TRS-80 with 300 baud modem, do we still have to keep the list at
their level, or can we encourage them to finally move up in technology
level?
I do a newsletter in Word format for my engineering society and send it out
as an attachment to over 200 people- some at home. I have yet to receive one
complaint that said newsletter can't be opened. I venture to say that a vast
majority of APOSOC people here are capable to receive rich mail and
attachments.
In my chapter, years ago i was laughed at when I first suggested that
chapter newsletters be sent by email. "Who would read their email" was the
quote. Within about 3-4 years, email newsletters became the standard in our
chapter, and are now widely done in most chapters at least. Likewise who
knew anything about the web in APO 10 years ago? So, I think it's not a
question of if we should upgrade but when.
*Hawkeye's Reply*
I don't care whether or not there can be all the bells and whistles and fonts and graphics, but I know it slows down my receipt of them, and while I'm traveling and using NetZero on the web, it makes replying a headache because of the html coding.
I'd prefer plain simple text, because it's easy, readable by everything, and doesn't take up bandwith.
Hawkeye
Alpha Phi Omega, Eta Psi '92
Touro Univerisity Collge of Osteopathic Medicine, Class of 2003
