22 Jun
2000
22 Jun
'00
4:02 p.m.
On Jun 22, 12:38, R. D. Davis wrote:
Why are you sending Luzedoze e-mail to this list?
Please either find
a way to send plain ASCII or delete Luzedoze from your system and
install something more useful that can send messages properly.
Well, much as I dislike Outlook (depressed or otherwise), it actually is
capable of sending plain text. You just need to make sure it's set to
generate plain text (not HTML, RTF, or multipart/mixed) in some reasonable
character set, for new messages, AND override the use of HTML/RTF/whatnot
when replying. Besides, there are plenty of other Windows mailers besides
Outlook; it's not a reason to go off the deep end.
However, you need to remember that not everyone here
uses that Microsoft
rubbish, so you shouldn't be sending e-mail that requires the recipient
to do anything other than read it.
True, in fact the Merrill Lynch survey I saw on CNN a little earlier today
showed that less than three-quarters of people using Windows use Microsoft
email software. Since only about 2/3 of PCs (in the loosest sense) run
Windows, that means only about half use Outlook etc.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York