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On Tue, 07 Apr 1998 08:00:15 -0700, Randal Whittle wrote: >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? > The big deal is that if you can't make use of it, it's a wasteful download. I still use a 14.4 Home & Away on my ThinkPad, and my P75 server only has a 9600bps when I download messages for my archives, so I don't have much bandwidth, nor the money to buy better resources. -- 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 89 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 3h 32m 52s 15ms.