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Re: Email Formats Re: V-Cards O-F-F Please!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter B)
Fri Oct 16 19:25:32 1998
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From: "Peter B" <azenomei@ticnet.com>
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:23:30 -0500
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From: Bunicula the Vampire Rabbit <bunicula@mediaone.net>
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Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 3:23 PM
Subject: Email Formats Re: V-Cards O-F-F Please!
>On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tim Daigle wrote:
>
>> Wow! sometimes this list is a paradox. We use Linux, a fairly complex
>> operating system that requires a certain level of technical prowess
to use.
>> We criticise M$ for dumbing things down too much. But we still use
Pine and
>> complain when we get emails with v-card info and HTML ... and then go
to
>> the extreme and request that all mail be in acsii. Huh...
The HTML writer's purist crowd are of the same opinion. To hell with
advancement, make your website readable with Cello, Lynx, pwWWWspeak,
etc...I don't know...most v-card's I get aren't even half-filled in
right, so why bother having one? It's not so much that dear old elm and
pine, etc, can't handle vcards, it's a case of "big deal, why the hell
do you need one?" If you got a story to tell with each email, throw it
in a sigfile. Easy.
I use M$ Internet Destroyer for browsing/mail/news etc, only cos I
haven't got around to getting a decent modem for my linux box...it's a
no-brainer to use, and most of the HTML mail or news I've seen is
harmless...
>
>
>
>pine 4.0x is good. with it we get the best of all the worlds. the
>same pine interface that we know and love, and the ability to read
<FONT
>SIZE="+97"><FONT COLOR="RED"><BLINK>HTML
EMAIL!!!!</BLINK></FONT></FONT>
>
>personally i think that rich text / html email is the obvious way to
go. a
>decent percentage of people out there love pretty colors and pictures.
so
>this way the ascii folks can see the email in plain text (with
occassional
>bolds and underlines) and the htmlers can see their 97 point bold red
>blinking text too :)
I'll probably be flamed for this, but in the computing world where
technology is outdated overnight, I've always found it amusing that
people hang on to Netscrape 1.22, Cello, etc, then whinge when someone's
page has frames or javascript on it :)
>
>
>that said, i've gotten my opinion out, and i'll shut up now...
>
>carry on, nothing more to see here
>
All my $0.02 worth...
'Later
Peter
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