15 Mar
1998
15 Mar
'98
10:35 a.m.
First, Tim Shoppa noted...
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.
Then Kip Crosby added...
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.
<grrrrrr!>
The more I hear about Billy-boy, and the more I see of his company's
"products" and arrogant attitudes, the less I like either one! Is there no
amount of bandwidth waste or code-bloat that Micro$quat won't stoop to?!
I knew there was a reason I'd started to get into Unix boxes. Thanks, guys!
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