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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Bob Garagliano wrote: > I don't mind the HTML as much as I mind excessive quoting. That has been > quite excessive here of late. Enough has probably been said on this, but I'll toss in my 2 cents since I tend to do more answering than asking on this list. My mail program can't view HTML attachments. The mail program that comes with Microsoft Internet Explorer claims to send a text version (labeled ASCII) and an HTML version (labeled HTML). The ASCII version isn't - I suspect it includes some binary characters which pine doesn't like and I end up with an "unable to view non-ASCII text" error. The end result is that I don't bother reading any messages that come through formatted like that. I just delete them rather than go through the gymnastics of saving it to a file and viewing it later. Every once in a while I'll send a message telling people about the problem (this is one of them :-). It's up to them to configure their mail program to send plain text only. If they don't/can't, I don't read their messages, and hence don't answer their questions. If they do get it configured correctly, I'd also recommend they send a message to Microsoft asking to fix this bug (how hard can ASCII be?), and perhaps having MS IE default to sending plain text instead of the weird text/HTML hybrid. -- John H. Kim kim@mak.com