16 Jan
1999
16 Jan
'99
7:23 a.m.
On Jan 15, 20:37, jpero(a)cgocable.net wrote:
Subject: Re: Commodore 1541 on ebay for $8500.00
Date sent: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:35:25 -0800
Send reply to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Commodore 1541 on ebay for
$8500.00
> Hey, that's impressive. By default my e-mail program which can handle
this
> garbage displayed a blank screen. Simply put
people, _PLEASE_ use
plain
> text. I'm quoting the garbage so you can see
the garbage you're
sending.
34 lines of
crap for 1 line of message, that's MicroSlop for you.
Zane
Now I don't waste on this and they get killed on
sight unread.
Jason D.
That's exactly what I do, and I suspect that many other readers do the
same. It's not even good HTML -- with all those font and colour
requirements that many systems couldn't honour. Like Zane, I use a mail
reader that can handle MIME, but it often fails on the bad HTML and/or
screwy MIME-types that some messages contain.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York