14 Mar
1998
14 Mar
'98
12:48 p.m.
look fairly
normal....it
contains a plaintext version of the message AND the HTML-ified version,
which is what your plaintext email reader is seeing while Eudora and
Netscape can pick out the plaintext version.
That's it. MIME-enabled clients read the MIME part; MSIE4 reads the HTML
part; MS-Outlook and Outlook Express I _think_ offer the choice between the
two. Microsoft no longer considers flat-ASCII mail to be an important
fraction of the traffic.
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Kip Crosby engine(a)chac.org
http://www.chac.org/index.html
Computer History Association of California
email: jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca
Pero, Jason D.