16 Jun
2000
16 Jun
'00
1:09 p.m.
On June 16, William Donzelli wrote:
I'm curious - what will some of us folks do when
HTML in email is used by
99 percent of the population? Is anyone writing mailers for the old
systems that can handle the HTML properly? Let's face it, HTML in email
is here and its growing. I would venture to say it is a natural
evolution, and all of the complaining we as a group do will have no
effect on the rest of the world. The rest of the world can use the excuse
"get a modern computer" - and for the most part they are right.
I still insist that it has nothing to do with "old" or "new"
computers...or even "old" or "new" mailers!
"Get a modern computer" doesn't do the trick...I can spin up X on a
twenty-year-old MicroVAX-II and run state-of-the-art GUI-fied email
software (kmail, vm under xemacs, whatever you want!) that will deal
with HTML email.
It really does seem to me that it's very much a Windoze/non-Windoze
thing. Next time someone emails you HTML crap, look at the headers.
It *all* comes from Windoze boxes. On the other hand, everyone I
associate with around here (home and work) uses Unix boxes of one
form or another...for the most part, they're all running perfectly
*NEW* modern hardware, running current, state-of-the-art
software...and I get NO HTML crap from any of them.
Non-HTML email is not exclusive to those of us who are into classic
computing. Non-HTML email isn't a "dying, quaint old way of doing
things" like some of the sold-on-Microsoft people seem to think.
-Dave McGuire