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At 02:15 AM 4/7/98 , Robert Dewar wrote: ><< Actually Paul, his "attachment" was really just an in-line HTML mail. >Some mail readers (notably Netscape's & Eudora 4.0) read this just fine, >but other mailers (I note that you are using PMMail for OS/2), not knowing >how to show the mailing, just handle it as an attachment. > > For those of us using a more capable mailer (Grin!), it came through >perfectly fine and looked pretty darn good to boot--basically it was a web >>> > >It is inappropraite to send HTML mail on a mailing list like this. I just >discarded the message, and many others will too! What's inappropriate about it? Is there a rule buried in the list rules somewhere saying you can't or shouldn't? Its not a huge waste of bandwidth (as an attached binary would be). Basically, if you have the kind of mailer that can read it, you saw it--if not, you deleted it. What's the big deal? ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 Director, Electronic Commerce Program Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California