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On Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:15:33 -0400, Cottrell, Eric wrote: >Hello, > >I had problems reading it using the latest version of Microsoft >Exchange. >It showed it as a bunch of files and I could not display the HTML with >an external reader when I clicked on the attachments. So I just >chucked it. > >In general it is better to post a url instead of all the relevant pages. >All my mailers have the capability to turn a email url into a link and >I just click on it. I person without the capability can cut and paste >into a browser. Plus it makes the message smaller. > >If we allow HTML messages then we might as well include binary postings >as well. Include several gif files and they are similar in message >size. >I belong to other mailing lists that do not allow either. I prefer it. > >Unfortunately it is getting more difficult to just send plain text as >the newer >versions of browsers that can do email default to sending all kinds of >junk (even two copies, one plain, one with formatting). I find that >being >able to do fancy formatting does not add to the message and sometimes >due to a small font size or color chosen difficult to read. These >features >seem to be thought up by marketing types for the whiz-bang factor rather >than the practical factor. They seem to think every one on the Internet >is running Windows 95 or NT with the latest browser. > >I subscribe to this list for thinkpad information, not because the >messages >look pretty. > I agree, and think that others should at least be somewhat considerate of the extra junk that adds up. You could at least post the URL, because not everyone will want to go to the page anyways, thus meaning that you're wasting their time AND their space by sending them the file itself, especially in an unreadable form. I can read HTML code fine, but as long as the other person sends it as a legitamate filename so I can save it, and view it later. -- Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS running OS/2 Warp 4.0, Fixpack 5 There are 22 Processes with 88 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 9h 23m 54s 54ms.