[snip lots of whitespace] I've been running Linux since mid '94 during about the 1.0 days or so, and ran Venix on a PDP-11/23 I built in 8[45] at the tender age of 16. Linux users have had Netscape available to us since pretty much mcom's founding; yes it supports HTML in the mail client and _no_ I don't use it. Netscape isn't the only mail reader which can handle html, I'm sure folks here could rattle off numerous UNIX email clients which put PC stuff like Netscape/IE4/Eudora to shame in functionality. The point isn't whether I have available to me such tools that can filter and process html, but whether html is appropriate for email. Email standardized on plain text back in the late 70's and early eighties. Just like many PC users who wish to maintain compatability with old DOS applications, many old time email users are reluctant to give up compatability with their old favorite clients just to read your nonstandard email. Others just plain don't have a choice. For example, consider the many leaf UUCP nodes out in third world countries getting their village email from a 2400/9600bps modems... these guys _don't_ need html, but they _do_ need access to the Internet. Are you honestly going to tell them to upgrade, when their yearly income is probably less than my weekly salery? America isn't the only net user, and legacy hardware is the _norm_ around the world. J. Maynard Gelinas UNIX System Administrator - GTE Technologies BBN Speech Solutions Group

On Sun, 15 Mar 1998 09:04:19 PST, you said: I don't WANT to patch anything for no benefit. HTML would add nothing to this message nor to any other I've sent. _______________ Barry Peterson bmpete(a)swbell.net Husband to Diane, Father to Doug, Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.