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On Tue, 7 Apr 98 21:26 CEST, Harald Milz wrote: >> >From: Randal Whittle[SMTP:rwhittle@usa.net] >> >Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 1:29 AM >> >To: Paul Khoury >> >Cc: LPLarsen; ThinkPad List >> >Subject: Re: Fw: Classifieds2000 found 5 computers >> > >> >At 11:11 PM 4/6/98 , Paul Khoury wrote: >> >>The next time you send attachments, can you please make them readable? >> >>I cannot read them, and they appear as AT0000x.ATT (x being 1 and up). >> > >> > 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. > >Randal, > >Netscape & Eudora & posting HTML crap in mailing lists and newsgroups is >definitely not the common denominator. In the past, using the common >denominator used to be a standard adhered to by about everybody on the >Internet. Adherance to netiquette appears to become unpopular these days. > >> > 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 >> >page in my E-Mail. > >Go post URLs instead. Your so-called more capable mailer will interpret the >URL fine so you can go and click on it. Folks with "less capable mailers" >can copy & paste the URL to their favourite browser. And hey, you really >don't need to send the high volume traffic to everybody. There are people >out there who pay their ISP per volume. The choice what they suck down >their lines is up to them, not up to you. > > I agree, especially for those like myself with little bandwidth as it is (9600 bps, and 14.4kbps). And I can click on a URL and go directly to Netscape, but not in one of those goofy attachments. -- 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 15m 23s 625ms.