15 Mar
1998
15 Mar
'98
1:45 p.m.
But we don't want people to think that unix is just some dusty old beast
that you can't view HTML mail on. Metamail is one that works, and of
course Netscape is available for a SunOS/Solaris, Linux, Sco, etc.
Personally, I get some kind of sick satisfaction in using my Atari 1200XL
to access the internet, through a shell account. There's obviously no X
environment for it and no PPP/SLIP for it either so I am all text all the
time. It is a RPITA to have to wade through two hundred lines to get
someone's "Hey, how's it going?" I'd love to just skip them, but I
feel
guilty just deleting my grandfather's messages without reading them. It's
hard enough to get him on the net, let alone teach him how to properly
configure his mail browser. ;-)
It does seem a bit silly that we are making our email messages bigger and
bigger with sound and graphics and at the same time populating our
networks above the existing capacity....
Aaron
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
<Text. If the e-mail that you wish to respond to's in plain text, that's
<what it'll send. The problem is that if M$ supports it, the WHOLE WORLD
<suddenly has to all have HTML-ized e-mail readers. It's nice if you hav
<it, but a pain in the A** if you don't.
There is the little matter of some several million (or more) unix(linux,
and related cuzins) systems out there where HTML is far from a standard.
For me and many of the hybrid users HTML means slow, slower and special
utilities to handle it and for what? What a waste of bandwidth.
Allison