Subject: Re: HTML email (was Re: Help with YDL 1.2 install CD-ROM)
From: Paul J. Lucas (pauljlucas@mac.com)
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 13:14:50 MDT
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Sam Moore wrote:
> Would folks mind not sending HTML email to the list? (Or at least sending
> plain ASCII also...?) I'd really like to read what you have to say but it's
> a little hard when I'm reading mail remotely/via terminal/etc. and can't
> launch a browser.
HTML is the worst thing to happen to e-mail. Ever. A decent
mailing-list package these days can automatically strip/convert
HTML to plain text. This should be done for all lists since
you're never going to convince people that "pretty" e-mail is
stupid.
In the mean time, try using Pine.
- Paul
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